Dunlop Sport Dunlop Sport Dunlop Sport is a British sporting goods company that specialises in tennis and golf equipment. Dunlop have manufactured sporting equipment since 1910. In most of the world, Dunlop Sports is owned by SRI Sports, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo. Spartan Sports have the rights to the brand in Australia and New Zealand. Dunlop was established as a company manufacturing goods from rubber in 1889. The company entered the sporting goods market in 1910, when it began to manufacture rubber golf balls at its base in Birmingham. The company introduced the Maxfli golf ball in 1922. Dunlop extended
Clayton Equipment Company ownership at higher levels, Clayton Equipment Ltd came to be owned by Rolls-Royce in 1989. It nonetheless retained a significant measure of autonomy, and in March 2005, it became an independent company again. Much of the company's orders now come from overseas, from countries such as Ireland and Russia. The company's main products are locomotives for underground mining, including battery-electric and diesel-hydraulic types. It also provides equipment refurbishment and training. Four new 75 hp battery powered locomotives named Walter, Lou, Anne and Kitty were built by Clayton Equipment in Derby to haul materials and plant along the line during the