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Show GATES LEADS ALL DEKVER INDUSTRIES Half-sole Tire Shops Expand Ex-pand Into a Giant Manufacturing Manu-facturing Plant. I'ioin a small shop on a side, street to ihi: largest industry In I env:r in less tlian six years is the interesting story o? the (.laics Rubber company, maker of (hit en half-solo tiros. The secret of thin remarkable success and development, without the assistance of any outside capltnl, 1m found in the principal product of the factory, the half-sole tire, which hears the name of tiie president and l'ounder of the company. I-'rom the very first Charles C. Gates, a (rained engineer, devoted Ills faculties facul-ties to ttie problem of economy for the motorist, manufacturing certain automobile automo-bile and tire accessories, designed to give more efficient service at hss cost. .Soon lie eurnmenced experimenting with a tire which would embody all t It ordinary 1'eat ur.-H of a regular tiru, and at the same time he u.-able fur the purpose of prolonging the- life of those thousands of tiifs which, though tread worn, still have sound fabric and beads. After two years fit' experiments the l iatcs haif-suic tire was put upon the market. This Lire is built from fiibric and rubber, rub-ber, like an ordinary tire, except that the beads are omitted. In place of the beads are extended side walls thinned. out toward to-ward the edKes. The half-sole tire is designed de-signed to slip over and entirely cover a tread-worn casing below the- bead, being be-ing held immovably In place by seif-vuk-unizlng cement rims and pressure. The combination of old tiro and half-sole furnishes in effect a new tire; and bu-caiiso bu-caiiso of this construction and the materials mate-rials used in the (kites half-sole tires they can bo guaranteed the samo as any other sraudard tire and also guaranteed guaran-teed against puncture. In actual service ser-vice tliev are delivering from 5000 to 15,-Oult 15,-Oult miles and -even up lo 20.000 miles. |