Dunlop
Dunlop is a surname, Scottish in origin. For people with family name Dunlop, see
Dunlop (surname).
Companies named
Dunlop include
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Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc. also known as "Jim Dunlop" — a popular music supplies company best known for its guitar effects pedals.
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Dunlop Tyres* Dunlop Aerospace Braking Systems, a company tracable back John Boyd Dunlop's wheel and tyre group of companies, supplies aluminium wheels, brakes (carbon-carbon, copper and steel) and hydraulic control systems to the aerospace industry. Dunlop Aerospace Braking Systems supplied the wheels and brakes to the Thrust SSC supersonic land-speed record holding car.
Places named
Dunlop include
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Dunlop, East Ayrshire, Scottish village
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Dunlop, Australian Capital Territory — the suburb named after Sir Edward Dunlop
Things named
Dunlop include
* The Dunlop ball in
squash, made by the Dunlop rubber company
* The Dunlop ball in
golf, distributed by Focus Golf Systems, Inc.
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Dunlop cheese made in Scotland
* The
Dunlop Cry Baby , used for
wah-wah guitar
* The
Thorgatstane dunlop, which is a glacial erratic with associated pagan legends.
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Dunlop parish church 1835 Kirk in the village of the same name.
