Mr Dunlop - Pneumatic Tyres (1914-1918)

Mr Dunlop turns out with the original pair - pneumatic tyres. Location of events unknown. John Boyd Dunlop; of the Dunlop Rubber Company; the inventor of the pneumatic tyres with group of people who had the first ones. Opens with shot of group of elderly men standing together; some holding bicycles. Then shot of the men riding down the road in a leisurely kind of way. Then a shot of them resting - very old looking little man with long white beard in FG; holding bike - this must be Dunlop. Some of the men sitting on the grass smoking pipes. Recreation. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British