![]() Alfred Dunhill began sponsoring golf tournaments in 1985, with the first annual Dunhill Cup golf tournament. By the late 1970s, Alfred Dunhill was offering a range of 3,500 luxury products in more than 20 stores round the world. This design has remained relatively unchanged since and was regularly used by James Bond in both print and on the screen. In the mid-1950s, Dunhill produced one of the first butane gas lighters. ![]() Dunhill retired from the business in the 1920s, leaving the position of managing director and president to his brother Alfred-Henry, then daughter Mary, and finally his grandson Richard. Dunhill's first tobacconist and pipe shop opened in 1907 on Duke Street. ![]() In 1904 Dunhill had patented a "Windshield Pipe" to help a driver smoke while driving. Within a few years, the business moved towards the luxury market with the opening of two Dunhill Motorities stores in Mayfair. This first collection included car horns and lamps, leather overcoats, goggles, picnic sets and timepieces, which provided the company with the strap line of "Everything But The Motor". Alfred Dunhill developed a line of automobile accessories called "Dunhill's Motorities". ![]() Alfred Dunhill Limited was developed by Alfred Dunhill after he inherited his father's saddlery business on London's Euston Road at the age of 21 in 1893. ![]()
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