Beset by disaster, the state's foray in tyre-making fell flat

By Julian Burgess, Launceston Historical Society
September 15 2019 - 6:00am

The announcement in 1926 that the Rapson Tyre and Rubber Company was to build a factory in Launceston caused great excitement.

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