John Boyd Dunlop is remembered for inventing the first commercially viable pneumatic tyre. On realising the usefulness and improved ride that pneumatic tyres allowed over conventional solid rubber tyre of the period, he patented the idea. This discovery of how to bond canvas to rubber became instrumental in developing the earliest sports shoes in the 1830s by his Liverpool Rubber Company. The later known Dunlop Tyre Company sold a million pairs annually in the UK at the peak of their popularity. Own a piece of Dunlop heritage right here at Cloggs.co.uk!