Alfred Dunhill Junior buka meja jual rokok paip setelah kedainya roboh 1942.


Roboh akibat dibom dalam serangan udara..biar pun dah takde kedai anak alfred dunhill masih meneruskan legasi datuknya..dia buka meja dan buat selamber je jual rokok paip depan kedainya itu..

Sedikit info sejarah dunhill..



1893 – Aged 21, Alfred Dunhill takes over his father’s saddlery business and converts it into Dunhill’s Motorities, providing ‘Everything for the car but the motor’.
1903 – Alfred Dunhill’s first dashboard clock marks their entry into the timepiece arena.
1905 – Alfred Dunhill patents his Windshield Pipe, designed to allow comfortable smoking while driving or cycling.
1907 – Having retired from running the Motorities business, Alfred Dunhill opens a pipe, cigar and tobacco store among the men’s clubs of Duke Street, St. James’s, London SW1.
1910 – Alfred Dunhill opens a pipe factory near the store.
1915 – The trademark White Spot marking is added to Alfred Dunhill’s pipes.
1921 – Store opens in New York; Paris store opens three years later.
1927 – Alfred Dunhill launches the revolutionary Unique lighter, the first to be operated using just one hand.
1928 – Alfred Dunhill begins distributing the Namiki pen company’s maki-e lacquered pens.
1936 – The iconic Facet timepiece, based on Alfred Dunhill’s car head-lamp designs, is launched.
1941 – Alfred Dunhill’s Duke Street store is bombed during World War II; it was extended and rebuilt in the 1950s and recently renovated.
1956 – The Rollagas butane lighter is launched.
1963 – Manufacture of Dunhill brand cigarettes starts.





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