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Unexpected light on the mighty Dunlop corporation is cast by the autobiography of Robert Drewe, in the nineteen-fifties one of its executives in Australia - and the son of one. Rubber products, his reviewer comments, dominated Drewe's youth, 'from the unfashionable Bumper leisure shoes that made an appearance under every Christmas tree to tyres, hoses and novelty ashtrays.' In those splendid Reversible days every Australian could be confidently assured, as the family budgerigar repeatedly announced to the Drewe household, 'Today You'll Use a Dunlop Product'. One assumes that the inimical Dunlop Revertex mackintosh was one of the more tempting things inviting employment... Robert Drewe:"The Shark Net:
Memories and Murder" Reviewed by Alex Clark in The Guardian, 22:04:00 HB |
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