29 OCTOBER 1921, Page 3

The late Mr. John Boyd Dunlop, who died in Dublin

on Sunday, at tho ago of eighty-one, will go down to posterity as the inventor of the Dunlop pneumatic tyro, which has made bicycling enjoyable and motoring possible. Mr. Dunlop was a Scottish veterinary surgeon, who had migrated to Belfast. He made his first tyres in 1888 for his son's tricycle, and in 1889 the tyres were used by a competitor in bicycle races at Queen's College, Belfast. While the credit for the idea was his, it is fair to add that Mr. Dunlop's invention was only made practicable by the persistent efforts of the late Mr. Harvey Du Cros and other men of business, who improved the original tyre out of all know- ledge and built up the new industry in the face of innumerable difficulties.