Judge — July 28, 1923 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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7 as 10000 ortunity tire broker. No building ‘up Dunlevy's ‘Start ARMOUR CORDS DIRECT FROM FACTORY We want one auto cwnerin each locality ‘and advertise Armour Cords. You getyourown tiresFr tering, Blow-Outs and Rim-Cutting for fe actial manufactur to Agents and low Fact: ARMOUR TIRE & RUBBER CO.,Dept. 500, Darton, 0 For every owner of DODGE BROTHERS MOTOR CAR’ w what accessory equip 0 You? putpose tn aang t comfort und enjoyment in the use of sour This book gives, the selections of experts, maile after careful study, test and conference with th Fils, Washingt id other institutions of | pounds } to cushion the ‘Thesaare Goodrich, Goodzear, ‘reste ‘el other beat known standard meinen Faiigncly ‘customers thousands of RO! Dent. C110c _ 1526 S. WABASH AVE.. CHICAGO, ILL, “T don’t see why Genevieve takes wild flowers to that horrid old teacher every day!” “Don’t tell anybody, but she heard that they give you hay fever, an’ she’s hoping the teacher will catch it an’ have to close the school.” MOTOR DEPARTMEN' Subseribere desiring practical help or tech- or cars, trucks, n obtain it . Please remember that a tico-cent stamp should be inclosed for reply. Riding on Air by Harold W. I is posstBLE that the cars which will be built. ten years from now. will literally “ride on air.” There is all the difference in the world between a small quantity of air in a tire pumped up hard, and a la quantity of air in a big tire that carries less pressure. Theo- retically, the larger the size of the tire carrying a given weight, the lower is the inflation pressure in that tire necessary to sustain the weight. Tire manufacturers for some years have been realizing that their admoni- tions to pump four inch tires to eighty pressure, four-and-a-half inch tires to ninety pounds pressure, ete., may have resulted in long tire life, but that such a practice has also defeated the very purpose of the tire, which is shocks and blows of Slauson rough road riding. The result has been a fortunate tend- ency on the part of manufacturers and car owners toward the use of large and oversize tires, and the tire makers now * permit a reduction in air pressure cor- responding to the load carried on a certain tire. For example, if you have a big car, using five inch tires, each of which carries 1,700 pounds load, you must keep these tires pumped to sixty five pounds. If, however, your car i not loaded or if five inch tires represent an oversize for it, so that there are only 1,200 pounds on ch wheel, you need pump your tires to but forty- five pounds and you will much more springy, easy- have a riding vehicle which will not only save your own nerves but will greatly reduce the necessity pairs to the car, 30 Drawn by Rowert J. Wituiass, Ja. generally occasioned by absorbed jolts and jars. But now some manufacturers hav experimented with a somewhat differ- ent type of tire design in order to obtain the greatest riding comfort from low pressure, large volume of air. These dres are built with thin walls permitting of great flexibility and having diameters as great as those found on some of the heavy trucks. Because of the great cross-sectional diameter of such tires, however, they are mounted on a smaller wheel about three inches less in diameter than the standard. Thus, for heavy. cars, such tires will be of the 36x inch size, and the first impression which such a tire makes on an observer is that the term “balloon” tire is well merited. insufficiently Te of this kind bid fair to present the ultimate of riding qualities and an ability to pull through deep sand. However, there are some objections which have not as yet been overcome and which may to retard their adoption for some 3 in order to obtain s nt flexibility these tires must be built so thin that they cannot help but puncture easily. Again, the amount of deflection of such a tire when subjected to varying loads produces a disagreeable side sway or pitching effect on a sharp turn which is added to the compression of the springs over the outside wheels with the result that the occupants of the car feel as though it were about to turn turtle. There is a variety of opinion as to the ease of steering such a car and as to its ability to hold the road at high speeds. It has been proved, however, that the large area of contact of this tire of wide ere ion gives a remarkable braking effect that prevents skidding. Cars which adopt these tires must be redesigned in sev- eral particulars to ommodate the wider cross-section. Spring suspensions may need to be changed, brake drums redesigned and other small features of con- struction revised to accommodate _ this radical departure in of re- Whenever anything was given away free, Car equipment. Jones wanted all he could carry. The tire manu- comicbooks.com