DUNLOP RELIABILITY MOTOR CONTEST
Motorsport has always been an integral part of Dunlop's heritage and success in Australia, In 1905 Henry Barton James, an employee with Dunlop, conducted the Dunlop Reliability Motor Contest, a trial from Sydney to Melbourne over a distance of 920km. This was the first major motorsport event in Australia and only the forth such event in the world, This trial attracted twenty three cars of which seventeen finished.