John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish pneumatic tyre inventor - Stock Image - H404/0170 - Science Photo Library
Dunlop Tyres Australia & New Zealand - In December 1888, John Boyd Dunlop was granted a patent for what has turned out to be a very big invention after inventing a tyre
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