History of the Pneumatic Tyre
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- Author(s) Tompkins, Eric
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1981
- Pages 112pp; illus
- Publisher Eastland Press for the Dunlop Archive Project
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
A Dunlop Archive Project Publication. Provides a history of the development of the pneumatic tyre from 1845 but with little about the role of Dunlop. Chapters include: 'Invention'; 'Re-invention'; 'First problems solved'; 'The cycle tyre completed'; 'Pneumatic tyres and the motor car'; 'Practical progress'; 'World War 1'; 'Simpler and better'; 'Beginnings of tyre science'; 'Tread patterns in the thirties'; 'Tyres and cornering'; 'World War 2'; 'No tube, no trouble'; 'Aquaplaning and legislation'; 'The seventies'; 'Denovo and the future'