Show MOTORS WILL CHANGE CHANCE RULES OF TRAVELERS Transportation Problems Have Been Su Successfully Met l b by Tire The Com Company an y The Tho motorizing of transposition ha has s come como to play such stich an Important part In inthe tho the dally daily affairs of the world that man many of the Important details at nt tho the time of ot happening received hardly more than passing attention arc are now of or primo prime Interest Things s have havo happened hap hap- so quickly that they thoy have ha been taken as ns a matter of or course It was two years ago t o that the Goodear Goodyear Goodyear Good Good- year ear Tire fc k Rubber company announced announced announced an- an an an- tho the Inauguration of n a motor truck service between tho the factory at Akron 0 O. O and Boston Doston Mass lIss for tho the purpose of or transporting rubber products product products prod prod- I to tho the Boston territory ant and cotton fabric from tho the mill at Goodyear Conn back baele to Akron a Akron a around I round trip of 1500 miles It was tho the first long lone hauling haulIng haul haul- Ing ins service put fut put Into operation In n this countr country and has lias been successful from rom tho the ver very cry start The use of pneumatic tire equipment on tho those c trucks enabled ena ena- enabled I bled them to operate the entire year car regardless res-ardless of weather conditions and I at no time since tho the Inauguration of or I the line has the service boon heon interrupted inter inter- not even during tho the unprecedented unprecedented Inter Inter-I dented snows of 1913 1318 in tho the Alle- Alle ghe les Following the h G Goodyear 0 ex cx- cx I I I ample similar linos nave have been in man many sections so that intercity Intercity Inter inter- city hauling now is an accepted fact When h n our country ent entered red the tho war this lino line was used to transport war I material from tho the central w west st to tho sea seaboard hoard and man many times s Impo Important shipments wore rushed to tho the cast by f Go Goodyear express In preference to tho the thoI I regular transportation channels And AndI I when the first train of or the vast Mt nunI number number num nun ber bel of or motor trucks for our forces In InFranco I Franco France was transported overland under un- un under under un un- der their own power from Detroit to Baltimore It Il Is one of oC the Goodyear trucks that served as ns a pilot for tor train The great freight congestion cong of or the first winter r of the war caused tho the government gov- gov j to urao ur c the tho ship b by truck I movement throughout tho the entire nation na- na nation nation na na- tion pointing out the Goodyear accomplishment accomplishment accomplishment as an nn example to bo be fol tol- lowed This company was shipping b by truck and doing it under the most trying tryIng try- try Ing In- conditions Now the movement Is national and md the motor truck has become bo- bo come one of or the most important units in our whole system of oC transportation Along Alons' with this wonderful expansion of the he motor truck into broader fields of ot usefulness there has been a great development of tires There Thero are arc separate separate sep sep- arate fields for tor all nil kinds of ot tires Somo Some uses demand a J. J pneumatic tire others require a solid tire The type of tiro used depends s altogether altogether alto alto- aHoI I gether bether on tho the service ser expected of the tho i truck AS between pneumatics and solids each typo type affords well defined advantages For Por short hauls through congested traffic where slow speeds are obligatory and pavements reason reason- reason reason-I I ably good solid tires lIres servo economically ca cally and well But In long IonS distance transport Interurban freighting and ut general trucking pneumatic tires arc are far moro more efficient and saving It Is s fortunate that just at tho the time limo that traffic conditions lI became acuto acute the tiro equipment for trucks had advanced advanced advanced ad ad- to a n L point permitting the entrance entrance en- en trance of oC trucks Into practically everyl every l kind of service It wl was in anticipation tion of or this condition that led Goodyear Goodyear Good Good- year to sot ot about evolving a tiro tire that would permit tho motor truck to graduate graduato grad grad- unto from tho the slow slow-movin field Pneumatic tires make practical certain phases of operation lon which formerly out of tho the question In he heavy vy truck service they save 11 In gasoline and oil consumption con con- The They greatly cut truck depreciation depreciation de de- and remove danger of load loid breakage They permit speeds which with any other typo of or tire lira would ho bo expensive and indeed perilous And Anil they ao allow transportation of or heavier loads lods on lighter classes |