Summary

Henry Perdriau entered the rubber industry in 1888 by "accident" he had contracted to supply rubber parts to the New South Wales Government Railways and placed an order with an English rubber company. Due to an error in decoding his cable he received five (5) times the amount of rubber ordered. He fulfilled his contract with the Railways and opened a store for the sale of the surplus rubber stock. Later, he started manufacturing rubber parts and, in 1904, floated the Perdriau Rubber Co. Ltd. with a capital of £40,000 ($A80,000). At the time of the merger with Dunlop, the Company had grown into an empire, with a capital of £1,500,000 ($A3,000,000). The merger with Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia Ltd formed Dunlop Perdriau Rubber Co Ltd in 1929.

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Timeline

 1904 - 1929 Perdriau Rubber Company Limited
       1929 - 1941 Dunlop-Perdriau Rubber Company Limited
             1941 - 1967 Dunlop Rubber (Australia) Limited
                   1967 - 1980 Dunlop Australia Limited
                         1980 - 1986 Dunlop Olympic Limited
                               1986 - 2002 Pacific Dunlop Limited
                                     2001 - 2016 Pacific Brands Limited
                                     2002 - Ansell Ltd

Archival resources

Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, (formerly Archives of Business and Labour)

• Perdriau Rubber Company Limited records; Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, (formerly Archives of Business and Labour). Details

Pacific Dunlop Ltd

• Perdriau Rubber Company Limited records, 1849 - 1986; Pacific Dunlop Ltd. Details