
Pacific Dunlop is one of the most unusual companies in Australia's history. It began as a maker of bicycle tyres in a Melbourne lane in the depression of 1893. When the mania for bicycles gave way to the a boom in motor cars, Dunlop became the main manufacturer of tyres.In the last 25 years the company has become the most diversified Australia has known. t is now one of the worlds leaders in many products.This book reveals much that is new about the history of Australia in the last 100 years as well s the story, for the first time, of one of most successful and long lasting companies.