MSS.328/N5/3/1/1/1-3 Veterinary Certificates: copies 20 April 1859-15 April 1867

Three items

Royal Veterinary Society of Edinburgh: copy diploma in Veterinary Science, 20 April 1859; copy diploma of honorary fellowship. 20 April 1859.

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons: admitted as a member, 15 April 1867.

MSS.328/N5/3/1/2 Veterinary notes mostly about problems with horses. ?c.1870s

One notebook

MSS.328/N5/3/1/3 Veterinary recipes/remedies and notes ?c. 1870s

One notebook

MSS.328/N5/3/1/4-5 Notes about disease in cows and tyres Post 1910

One notepad and photocopy

Notepad containing Dunlop's notes on tuberculosis in cows, problems of diagnosis and how this could be transmitted in milk to humans, efforts to stop the spread of the disease, etc.; his notes about the early history and invention of the pneumatic tyre and particularly his own part in this. Includes copies of some of his letters.

Photocopy of the whole contents of the notepad (80 sheets).

MSS.328/N5/3/1/6 Letter of thanks 14 September 1870

One item

Photograph of part of letter from a lady of Inniglas, in which she thanks "Mr Dunlop for his very great kindness to her favorite [sic] dog". Mounted on card.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/1 Notes about the pneumatic tyre Post 2 March 1918

One notepad

File of notes paginated 2-30, apparently a rough draft for an article or book, telling the early history of the pneumatic tyre, including reports from the Irish Cyclist of 1892-1895, and the Irish Wheelman, 26 January 1897. Much relates to the 1890s, but there is material about the coming of age celebrations in 1909 and reference to Robert William Thompson (Thomson), (b.1822), from an article in The Autocar of 2 March 1918.

[The Irish Wheelman was afterwards amalgamated with the Irish Cyclist, and subsquently it became the Irish Cyclist & Motor Cyclist].

MSS.328/N5/3/2/2 Notes ?Early 20th century

Twenty eight sheets

Notes numbered in red pencil, starting "It is hard to say whether Thomson was the first to apply solid tyres to wheels". Incomplete.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/3-4 "Cycle & Motor Cycle Trade": notes and correspondence ?Early 20th century

One notepad and two loose sheets

Notepad with pages numbered in red pencil 8-116, and two loose sheets which seem to have been once attached, numbered 5-8, the whole entitled "Cycle & Motor Cycle Trade", starting "In continuation of my reply to Mr Edlins letter of 8th December", containing further notes with reference to tyres and the working of the internal combustion engine in the 1890s and early 20th century, and copy and original letters (1904 and 1906). He finishes with notes from books on ventilation. Some pages are unnumbered.

These notes have been photocopied. 124 pages.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/5-8 Notes ?Early 20th century

Two sheets of paper

Two loose pages of notes similar to and probably once part of those listed above. One is post 1892 and the other relates to the petrol engine.

These pages have been photocopied.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/9 Notebook entitled "Searches" c. 1900

One notebook

Notes, many in shorthand, with rough sketches. Includes notes entitled "Improvements in Forks and Ball bearings for Cycles". Searches go back at least to 1895 and there is reference to a "Carb Search Jan 1904".

MSS.328/N5/3/2/10-11 Notes made on headed notepaper c. 1900; 20 December 1903

Two items

Note from Hazeldene, Ailesbury Road, Dublin, that Dunlop patented the pneumatic tyre in July 1888 and tested a tricycle and a bicycle on the road until the following Spring, that about 3 dozen bicycles were manufactured and sold in the Spring and Summer of 1889, and that races were won, with further details.

Note from Leighton, Ailesbury Road, Dublin, by Dunlop recording a total eclipse of the moon, 28 and 29 January 1888, "The night on which the first Pneumatic tricycle was ridden in my yard & then out round Linen Hall Belfast". With note of the lodging of his patent in 1889.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/12 Extracts about the pneumatic tyre from "I. C." [?Irish Cyclist] 19 December 1888-10 December 1890

One volume

Volume headed "Extracts I. C.", containing references to tyres, including report of Queen's College, Belfast, Sports on 18 May 1889, referring to the pneumatic safety which scored heavily; copy of an article on the pneumatic tyre, 16 October 1889; report of an interview with Dunlop, 20 November 1889; and to the formation and proceedings of the Pneumatic Tyre and Booths [sic] Cycle Agency, Ltd; a few poems are also included.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/13 Extracts about the pneumatic tyre 10 December 1890-1892

One notebook

Notebook (The "Elephant" Scribbling Book) continuing from the above volume. It contains extracts from journals, letters and perhaps other sources about tyres, including a few poems, and with some reference to the American market.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/13A Typescript Legal Statements concerning the invention of the pneumatic tyre ?c.1890s

Three items

Statement made by John Boyd Dunlop to John B. Purchase of 11 Queen Victoria Street for the Pneumatic Tyre Company, charting the history of his invention of the pneumatic tyre, undated.

Pages three and four of a statement made by Finlay Sinclair to the same [pages one and two not present].

Statement of William Hume of Temple More Avenue, Belfast, manufacturer, attached to the above, in which he claimed to have been the first person to have purchased a roadster cycle fitted with Dunlop tyres. This happened in March 1889. In May 1889 he purchased a Dunlop racer and won four first prizes at the Queen's College Sports, Belfast. This statement is annotated in manuscript by Dunlop.

These statements are in draft form with manuscript alterations.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/14 Original correspondence to Dunlop found in an envelope 17 March 1897-26 June 1920

Fifteen items

From S. Anderson[?] of Coleraine, 19 March 1897, congratulating Dunlop on his victory.

From Arthur Deane of the Public Art Gallery & Museum, Belfast, 26 June 1920, asking for a sample of the first unwoven fabric ever used on a cycle, with Dunlop's copy reply.

From R. W. Edlin in Sherlock Street, Birmingham, 8 December 1909, 16 June and 13 September 1910, 29 July 1913, and 9 August 1918, and copy of his letter to the Daily Sketch, 23 February 1911.

From D[?] Harris of Charlemont Bridge Works, Charlemont Bridge, Dublin, 17 March 1897, congratulating Dunlop on winning his case.

From the Irish Committee in connection with the pneumatic tyre majority celebration, 6 November 1909, with Dunlop's notes about this attached thereto.

From the Island Spinning Company Limited, in Lisburn, 20 December 1905, stating that according to its books it had first sent Dunlop cloth on 5 February 1889.

Zaidee Lawson of 78 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin, 18 March 1897, congratulating Dunlop on his victory.

C. Moran of Rathown[?], West Meath, 18 March 1897, congratulating Dunlop on his victory.

W. H. Simms of Simms & Co., Newtownards, 17 March 1897, congratulating Dunlop on his victory.

Draft letter from Dunlop at Leighton, Ailesbury Road, Dublin, to the editor of The Clarion, 10 April 1914, about the pneumatic tyre.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/15 Copies of Dunlop's correspondence to others 29 August 1903-9 May 1905

One notepad, with one letter detached.

Many of the letters were addressed to Mr Bassett and the editors of journals or newspapers. Some pages cut out. At end rough sketches etc., and accounts of bank drafts from 1882-1893, headed May 1905.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/16 Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh: presentation of Dunlop's original pneumatic tyre 11 March 1910

One item

Remarks by Dr Alexander Galt, keeper of the Department of Technology in the Museum, on the occasion of the presentation to the Museum of the bicycle wheel having the original pneumatic tyre invented by J. B. Dunlop.

See also MSS.328/N5/12/2.

MSS.328/N5/3/2/17 Captions for samples of cloth used to cover bicycle tyres Early 20th century

Three items

Two of the captions state that the unwoven fabric shown was the first ever used on an air tyre, that the tyre is still extant, that it was the fastest of its period and was ridden with success by Sir Arthur du Cros in 1892. It was hand made by J. B. Dunlop, who wrote the caption.

The third caption relates to a sample of a gentleman's yacht sail cloth used for the cover of "first bicycle tyres" and a sample of desulphurised sheet rubber used for making air tubes of tyres fitted to the first tricycle. The caption was written by J. B. Dunlop.

MSS.328/N5/4/1/1 Veterinary material 1909

One booklet

Tuberculosis and Pure Milk Supply. Leaflet by J. B. Dunlop. Dublin, 1909.

MSS.328/N5/4/1/2 Veterinary material 5 November 1938

One item

The late John Boyd Dunlop, M.R.C.V.S. a great veterinarian inventor. The pneumatic tyre experiments, by Jean W. McClintock. From The Veterinarian Record, no. 45, volume 50, 5 November 1938, pages 1502-1504.

MSS.328/N5/4/1/3 Veterinary material 1966

One item

John Boyd Dunlop: Veterinary Surgeon and Inventor on the 125th anniversary of his birth, article by E.-H. Lochmann, translated from the German, and reprinted from The Veterinarian, vol. 4, pages 71-81, 1966.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/1 Patents 1891-1895

Seven items

1. Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres for the Wheels of Velocipedes and other Vehicles, and in the method of Constructing the same. Application by William Golding, of 4 Portman Street, Moss Side, Manchester, manufacturer, 21 February 1891, accepted, 24 December 1891. No. 3178.

2. Improvements in Rims and Elastic Tyres for Wheels. Application by George Henry Nedderman of 6 Tudor Street, Werneth Hall Road, Oldham, Lancs., mechanic, 19 March 1891, accepted, 23 May 1891. No. 4889.

3. Improvements in Tyres for the Wheels of Velocipedes and other Vehicles. Application by John Boyd Dunlop of 50 Gloucester Street, Belfast, Ireland, veterinary surgeon, 5 August 1891, accepted, 18 June 1892. No. 13,230. This related more especially to hollow inflatable tyres of the kind or class known as pneumatic tyres.

4. Improvements in Pneumatic Tyres for the Wheels of Velocipedes and other Vehicles. Application by Charles Kingston Welch, The Hollies, Eaton Road, Coventry, engineer, 10 July 1893, accepted, 10 October 1894. No. 13,391.

5. Improvements relating to Pneumatic Tyres. Application by Charles Kingston Welch, The Hollies, Eaton Road, Coventry, engineer, 7 October 1893, accepted, 1 September 1894. No. 18,851.

6. Improvements relating to Pneumatic Tyres. Application by Charles Kingston Welch, The Hollies, Eaton Road, Coventry, engineer, 10 May 1894, accepted, 16 March 1895. No. 9294.

7. Improvements in Elastic Tyres. Application by Charles Kingston Welch, The Hollies, Eaton Road, Coventry, engineer, 16 July 1894, accepted 22 June 1895. No. 13,708.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/2 Pneumatic Tyre and Booth's Cycle Agency, Limited 18 November 1889

Loose photocopied sheets

Prospectus, explaining that the Company had been formed to take over the British and Irish interest of John Boyd Dunlop in the patent for an improvement in tyres of wheels for bicycles, tricycles, and other road cars and the interest of the same in certain inventions (named), also the cycle business of Messrs. Booth Brothers, Dublin, and of the cycle works of Messrs. Edlin and Co., Belfast. Memorandum of association.

Six variously sized photocopies. Not complete.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/3 The Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Company, Limited 1896

One item

Prospectus, including memorandum of association. Offices at 160, Clerkenwell Road, London E. C.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/4 Millet's Patent Motor Wheel and Cycle Company, Limited 1896

One pamphlet

Prospectus, memorandum of association and reports on the motor bicycle. With some manuscript annotations, including a note that the item is "Private. Rough Provisional Draft".

MSS.328/N5/4/2/5 Coming of Age of the Pneumatic Tyre 19 November 1909

One pamphlet

"Our twenty-first birthday" - the true tale of the founding of the Pneumatic Tyre , by Edlin and Sinclair. Published by Edlin-Sinclair, Ltd, 19 November 1909.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/6 Souvenir of the Pneumatic Tyre Celebration. 1888-1909 1909

One booklet

This booklet records the proceedings on the celebration of the majority of the pneumatic tyre at a banquet held at the Hotel Cecil in London, on 19 November 1909.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/7 The Wheel and Cycle Trades Review 24 December 1898

One issue

Volume 1, no. 6. Reference is made to page 279, but this page is not present.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/8 The Cyclist 20 July 1938

One issue

This is the Dunlop Tyre Jubilee souvenir issue

MSS.328/N5/4/2/9 The Dunlop Gazette November 1961

One issue

This issue records the opening of the Dunlop Memorial Hall at Dunlop's birthplace, Dreghorn, Ayrshire, as a permanent memorial to him.

MSS.328/N5/4/2/10 The History of the Pneumatic Tyre c. 1921

One volume

Master copy of this volume, said by his daughter in 1933, to be a rough draft, as Dunlop was revising it at the time of his death, but "containing all the essential facts in connection with his invention". Many manuscript annotations. Some of the illustrations are to be found amongst the papers here.