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Catalogue description DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED
This record is held by The London Archives: City of London
| Reference: | ACC/2166 |
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| Title: | DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY LIMITED |
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Consists of a complete set of reports and balance sheets from all the Dunlop national companies and subsidiaries; from 1901 to 1965. The reports consist of both printed (for national companies) and typescript (for subsidiaries) financial reports on a yearly basis, predominantly from January to December. These were reports presented to the Board of Directors which controlled Dunlop Rubber Company Limited. They contain audited balance sheets, profit and loss statements and notes on the accounts. However, the extent of detail varies from company to company. Some overseas holdings have presented reports and balance sheets in the indigenous language. 'Prints' are printed annual reports. Most volumes of reports and balance sheets have a contents page inside the front cover, which gives a breakdown of Dunlop Rubber Company Limited into its various Divisions and Groups. |
| Date: | 1901 - 1965 |
| Held by: | The London Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical description: | 107 files |
| Publication note: |
P F Jennings: Dunlopera: The Works and Workings of the Dunlop Rubber Company (1961) G Jones: The Multinational Expansion of Dunlop, 1890-1939 (1986) R H A Storrs: Dunlop in War and Peace (1946) A P Du Cros: Wheels of Fortune: a Salute to Pioneers (1938) |
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The Dunlop Rubber Company takes its name from John Boyd Dunlop, the first person to put the pneumatic principle into everyday use by making an air filled tube tyre for bicycles. However, he was only involved with the company from 1889 to 1894, when he joined a rival firm, Tubeless (Fleuss) Pneumatic Tyre Company. The original company was the Pneumatic Tyre and Booth's Cycle Agency Ltd, founded in 1888 in Dublin. The name Dunlop Rubber Company was first used in 1889 for a private company created to serve as one of the manufacturing units for the founder company. This founder company changed its name several times: in 1893 to the Pneumatic Tyre Company Limited; in 1896 to the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company Limited and in 1913 to the Parent Tyre Company Limited. In 1931 the founder company went into liquidation. In the meantime, Harvey Du Cros (who had helped to form the Pneumatic Tyre and Booth's Cycle Agency Ltd.) was providing finance to Byrne Bros., a Birmingham business engaged in the production of general rubber goods. In 1896 Byrne Bros. underwent flotation on the stock market as the Rubber Tyre Manufacturing Company based at Para Mill with the intention of building a new factory, Manor Mills, alongside it. Du Cros purchased the Manor Mills and the Rubber Tyre Manufacturing Company in 1900 and 1901 respectively, and the two companies were amalgamated to form the Dunlop Rubber Company Limited. This company purchased the founder company in 1912. In subsequent years Dunlop expanded into a vast multinational organisation. By 1946 there were 90,000 shareholders and 70,000 employees with factories in, any different countries, sales outlets in nearly every country, and rubber plantations in southeast Asia (from 1910). Apart from merely producing tyres, the Dunlop Rubber Company Limited made cycle rims and motor car wheels fro,,, 1906 and in 1914 developed a process of spinning and doubling cotton for a new tyre fabric. A collapse in trade in 1922 after the post World War 1 boom led to financial and administrative reorganisation, but the inter war period also saw the development of Latex foam cushioning (sold by the subsidiary, Dunlopillo) and expansion by way of new factories in South Africa and India. After World War II (during which Dunlop played a major part as suppliers of tyres and rubber goods to the Allied forces). Dunlop expanded further to produce sports goods, sponge rubber, precision bearings and adhesives. Dunlop Holdings Limited (encompassing the whole company) was bought by BTR plc in 1985. An alphabetical list of subsidiaries and companies included in the Dunlop Rubber Company Limited Reports and balance sheets (ACC/2166/001-107) with an indication of the approximate date at which the name first appeared. Name Date Aberdeen Tyre Services 1956 Allington Finance Co Ltd 1958 Anode Rubber Co 1929 Argus Sports Co 1928 Australasia 1928 Aviation Division 1946 Bahau Rubber Co Ltd 1916 W R Barnes and Co Ltd 1955 W and A Bates Ltd 1927 Bemban Rubber Co Ltd 1913 Bibile Rubber Co Ltd 1913 Bintex 1949 W Briggs and Co Ltd 1931 British Hard Rubber Co Ltd 1954 C H Brittain and Co Ltd (Hanley) 1927 Brynmawr Rubber Ltd 1954 Brynmawr Rubber (Sales) Ltd 1954 John Bull Group 1959 Casey and Sons 1929 C H Ltd 1962 Clipper Tyre Co Ltd 1918 County Tyre House Ltd - Canterbury 1931 F A Davis Ltd 1925 Dengate Tyre Co Ltd 1955 Deutsche Dunlop Gummi Compagnie A-G 1923 Dreghorn Publications Ltd 1962 Dunlop Advisory Services Ltd 1957 Dunlop America 1923 Dunlop Gomm Kyokuto Kabushiki Kaisha (Kobe) 1927 Dunlop Malayan Estates Ltd 1940 Dunlop Malayan Industries Ltd 1961 Dunlop Pension Trust 1949 Dunlop Perdriau 1930 Dunlop Plantations Ltd 1918 Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co (S America) 1913 Dunlop Rayon Doublers 1949 Dunlop-Revere Thread Co Ltd 1933 Dunlop Rim and Wheel Co Ltd 1913 Dunlop Rubber Co Ltd 1901 Dunlop Rubber Co Ltd (Ceylon) Ltd 1923 Dunlop Rubber Co (Continental) Ltd 1913 Dunlop Rubber Co (Far East) Ltd 1927 Dunlop Rubber Co (India) Ltd 1913 Dunlop Rubber Co (Ireland) Ltd 1924 Dunlop Rubber Co (South Africa) Ltd 1913 Dunlop Rubber Co (South America) Ltd 1913 Dunlop Rubber Cotton Mills Ltd 1918 Dunlop Scotland Ltd 1949 Dunlop Special Products Ltd 1947 Dunlop Sports Co 1928 Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Co Ltd of Canada 1927 Dunlop Weatherprooofs Ltd 1947 Dutfield Rubber Industries 1956 Engineering Consultants 1961 Express Companies 1962 S L and M Feathers 1951 Flexible Saddles Ltd 1927 Gardner Bros 1930 Gemas Rubber Co Ltd 1913 Glovers (Thread Coverers) Ltd 1933 Gomali Rubber Co Ltd 1913 W Goodyear and Sons Ltd 1925 Gorrills 1962 Grimsby Tyre Co Ltd 1938 Guernsey Elastic Thread Co 1935 Harrogate Tyre Co Ltd 1938 Hollingsworth 1936 Hollingsworth Auto Elect Services Ltd 1955 Hood and Winterburn Ltd 1938 James Hoyle Ltd 1920 Hungarian Rubber Co 1927 Fred Hurtley and Son Ltd 1964 Improved Steel Co Ltd 1920 Industrial Developments Ltd 1939 International Latex Processes Ltd 1945 International Synthetic Rubber Co Ltd 1961 H James 1926 Johore Rubber Lands 1930 Lastex Yarn and Lactron Thread 1935 Latex Corporation of Ceylon 1951 Latex Holdings 1930 Leicester Brace and Garter Co 1929 John Letters Ltd 1957 Litesome Sportswear Ltd 1965 L L Tyre Service Ltd 1938 Macintosh Group (also known as the Northern Group) 1926 Including Charles Macintosh Charles Macintosh depots: Sydney, Buenos Aires, Johanesburg, Dublin, Belfast, Brook Street Macintosh Cable Co Ltd Manchester Balata Belting Broadhurst and Co Ltd New Eccles Rubber Works Ltd Casoid Ltd Campbell Achnach and Co Ltd Liverpool Rubber Co all 1926 Dela Rubber Co Ltd (Liverpool) 1927 Dela (London) 1928 Macinlop 1928 Macinlop (India) 1928 Macinlop (Ireland) 1928 Macinlop New Zealand 1928 Macinlop Polsce 1938 Macinlop (S Africa) 1928 Charles Macintosh (S America) 1928 Deutsche Macinlop 1928 Marsham Tyre Co 1935 Martins (Leicester) 1928 Midland Tyre Co Ltd 1938 Naaml Venn Nederlandsche Dr en bauder maatschappy 1922 Newton Services (Devon) Ltd 1956 Nigerian Plantations Ltd 1957 Nile Spinning and Doubling Co Ltd 1919 Overseas Trust Ltd 1952 Playlastic Toy Co Ltd 1947 Playlastic Toy Sales Co 1949 John Rain 1929 Rapid Tyre Service Ltd 1931 Redditch Mouldings Ltd 1955 Regent Tyre and Rubber Co Ltd 1938 Ross Spinning Co Ltd 1919 Rubber Curing Patents Syndicate Ltd 1954 Rubber Insurance Agencies Ltd 1951 Rubbermaid Ltd 1954 Edgar Sealey 1961 Segamat (Johore) Rubber Estates Ltd 1920 Semtex Ltd 1938 Shrewsbury and Challiner Tyre Co Ltd 1928 Slazengers Ltd 1959 Smallbone 1938 Sociedad Espanola Dunlop 1918 Societa Italiana Dunlop per I'Industria della Gomma 1913 Société Anonyme des Pneumatiques Dunlop 1919 South Lincs Tyre Co 1942 Spalding Companies 1962 Standamac 1929 Stella Group 1961 Straits Settlement Co 1927 Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd 1962 Terco 1953 Thompson's (Carlisle) Ltd 1938 Thread Holdings Ltd 1935 Tyerco (France) 1954 Tyre Disposals Ltd 1955 Tyre Economy Ltd 1957 Tyre Investment Trust (TIT) 1927 Tyre Machinery Syndicate 1928 Tyre (Scotland) Production Ltd 1955 Tyre Stores Ltd 1949 Tyremail 1937 Tyres (Scotland) Ltd 1955 Tyres (Scotland) Accessories Ltd 1955 Tyresoles Ltd 1953 United Reclaim Ltd 1961 Universal Tyre Co (Yorkshire) Ltd 1938 Virginia Rubber Co Ltd 1915 Welsh Tyre Service Ltd 1938 West Mills, Harlow 1929 Xetal Products 1949 Yorkshire Tyre and Rubber Co 1938 |
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