Dunlop Rubber Company’s Plans for Beaumaris 1939-45

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Dunlop Rubber Company’s Plans for Beaumaris 1939-45

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JUNE 1945
* FACTORY VILLAGE
PLAN REVIVED:

Rydges Journal

had, as its cover
story, an article
on the Dunlop Rubber Company’s
plan for Beaumaris.
The detailed, zoomable, plan
of the proposed Dunlop village
on its 180 hectares of central
Beaumaris can be accessed here.


AUGUST 1939
*BEAUMARIS
ON FRONT PAGE OF
MELBOURNE EVENING NEWSPAPER:

The plan
announced
by The Herald newspaper in
Melbourne of the Dunlop Rubber
Company’s plan for a large factory
village on 180 hectares of land it
had bought in Beaumaris was
stymied a month later by the
outbreak of World War II.

 

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