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Dale Surfboards 236 Harbord Road Brookvale, NSW circa 1963 Dave Passinger and Les Patterson  (Entry adjusted thanks to Denis Wright, April 2009) 1965 Les Patterson ; Dick van Straalen; Ron Wade

Dale Surfboards 1976 Port Elliot, South Australia. Mike Brown emailed in December 2008 (edited): DALE Surfboards were made by Wayne Dale at Port Elliott  near Victor Harbour in South Australia. Wayne worked with Sig Kwiakoski at John Arnolds through the 60s and opened his small operation in the mid 70s at Elliott. Beautiful boards with great shapes and colours, Wayne was a master shaper. He now designs golf courses.

David Surfboards ??? 19?? Decal image contributed with thanks by Snazzy, December 2010.

Dick van Straalen Surfboards circa 1969 Burleigh Heads, Queensland. Also see Surf Design Queensland Surfboards and Spirit of the Sea Surfboards. Decal circa 1974, emailed by George, early 2009. Note Stralen mis-spelling.

Dillon Surfboards  Scott Dillon Surfboards

Donald Surfboards circa 1965 One example located by Brett in Perth circa 1992. Decal image, right, contributed by Brett (Perth/New Zealand??), March 2007.

Dora Surfboards 1965 Bay Side Surf Centre Melbourne 923774 Californian Style Model There was probably no design or financial negotiatons with Mr.Dora. Reported as manufactrered by George Rice and Doug Warbrick.

Dove Surfboards Exmouth, Western Australia. 1976  Peter Dixon

Drouyn Surfboards Surfers Paradise Qld 1969 Peter Drouyn 1977 Peter Drouyn

Dunlop Surfboards Roger Street, Brookvale 1963 Factory of Crest Surfboards run by Bruen Finey. Also manufactured Pacfic by Dunlop. After Crest folded, Dunlop moved the board making operation to St Mary’s, in western Sydney. Image right: Dunlop fin box, circa 1963. (no reference - probably Surfing World or Surfabout magazines) Vary the fin to different surfs. Remove it for easy transportation. Fin is held firmly in position with specially designed nylon  slot attachment. Possibly copied or imported from a US design. Also manufactured the moulded plastic Dunlop Hand-Surfa, 1964.  A replaceable fin system was also availalbe from Crest,  See Source Documents: Mick Simmons Pty Ltd: Sporting Goods Catalogue, Sydney, 1962. This entry updated from notes and photographs posted by Gary Crockett on the Surf City Blog, June 20th, 2011 at 1:10 pm http://blogs.hht.net.au/surfcity/ Many thanks to Garry and Bruen Finey.

Dunlop also ventured into New Zealand production during the 1960s.
In 1966 Dunlop purchased the Sportex company which had marketed "pop-out" boards under the Kahuna label, built by Frank Wilkin who also built customs as Frank Wilkin Surfboards.
- Williamson: Gone Surfing (2000 ), page 52.
In October 1999, the Longboard Shop, New Zealand, autioned more than 100 surfboards including one Kahuna:
1962 #76 9ft 3'': "Kahuna: by Frank Wilkin; one of the earliest NZ makers"
The online catalogue had a number of Dunlop Surfboards from 1962 to 1967.
From 1965 several of the boards were shaped by John Ormond and Tony White, and there were no Dunlop boards later than 1967.

1962 #107  1964 #25  #106  #109  #111 #112  1966 #6  #69  #110

9ft 4''  "one of the first fat rails"   9ft 4''  clear 9ft 5''  Island model 9ft 6'' "flying 'D' in yellow fin" 9ft 4'' "flying 'D' in blue fin" 9ft 4'' "flying 'D' in fin"   9ft 6''   "thin rail ...shaped by John Ormrod" 9ft 6''   "shaped by Tony White" 9ft 0''  "probably shaped by Tony White"

1963 #108  1965 #23  #31  #99  #105    1967 #20  #27 #29

9ft 4'' "very fat rails about 4'' thick"   8ft 8'' "cut-down ... no fin" 9ft 9'': "by B.B.?" 9ft 4'': "shaped by John Ormrod" 9ft 0'': "shaped by Tony White"     9ft 1'': "thin rail ... shaped by Tony White ... Weber hatchet fin"  xft x'': "thin rail ... Takayama fin" 9ft 6'': "probably shaped by Tony White"

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