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Dunlop

Richard Dye said:
The carbon black dust was the worst thing I ran into in tire plants. Very fine black dust/dirt.
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the mill was the worst for that just walking through you was filthy and it got up your nose

the usage of carbon black in tire manufacturing leads to the black color commonly seen in tires today. Carbon black provides a number of unique benefits to the tire helping to create a durable and high-performing tire it got up yor nose
 
Yes, that's Dunlop, but as I've mentioned before it was never a Fort, just Dunlop Tyres. I worked at Pressed Steel Fishers next door (formerly Nuffields) and we just called it Dunlop.

The misnomer "Fort Dunlop" arose from good old Black Country slang in times long before I was born, but I learned how it came about from old timers working there.

Many Dunlop workers arrived each at Dunlop by barges along the adjacent canal.

Along the way, when arriving at pick up points, the barge master or others, would call out "All for't Dunlop" (All for the Dunlop), from which the myth of Fort Dunlop was born.
 
When looking at his son’s little battle, Boyd decided to wrap his tricycle’s wheels with thin sheets of rubber. Stick them together, and inflate them with a football pump. This would make his child’s bike more comfortable and smoother, and provide him with better handling.
This invention turned out to be a very big idea. John Boyd Dunlop developed the first air cushioning system in history and set the foundation for the first pneumatic tyre.

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They adopted the name 'Fort' for their tennis balls. I suppose it suggests strength and resilience.
 

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Dunlop were an impressive company once. They seemed to make everything and the Dunlop logo appearing everywhere. From car tyres to aeroplane tyres, all sorts of rubber goods to sporting goods and even fashionable spots clothing items. Just wondering where it all went wrong.

They did seem to focus on the car tyre industry, which in my opinion would quickly became highly competitive market. Just the growing demand for cars was indicating a lot more countries were going to start manufacturing and exporting worldwide.
 
I think I had Dunlop plimsoles (remember those ?) Doubtless my hockey boots were also Dunlop. In recent times I've seen Dunlop slippers, so they must still be producing goods, somewhere.
 
Bot necessarily Viv. Companies sell the rights to use their name on products some maintain, or used to, a rigid control over the quality of the product. But not all. In addition, when a company has problems the people, if any, who take over care little, in many cases about producing the Same product, hustvthe income it brings in. The whole concept of "brands" pushed by the advertising industry, while it may have had meaning once, often has little now
 
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