Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 27 | Trucks Travel Touring Speed

TRUCKS TBML f TDURIPJG SPEED joodyear Pneumatics fast Run, Boston to "oast, Possible. jc roifi'oly American power , bP"ome and will remain the 0 the nation, commercially tfjallv, as well as of a nation as never better demonstrated fonday of last week, when two rce-ton motor tracks a big j s Packard each carrying a jrplane tires for the govern- service station at Sau Ft;id-iei Ft;id-iei silently into Salt Lake Ss previously these same, two j iff! Boston on the long run , continent. Hitting the grit, i' Jav, they bad negotiated the mjps that separate ralt Lake , metropolis of the New Kn-jtes, Kn-jtes, a' an average speed of an hour, Swinging along i(j aJid had roads, busting . lm bridges on the Lincoln 'm Wyoming, never slacking , pj.'ppt to take on water and 'he big trucks rolled into this li of schedule time by fully .or hours. 10 is being made to prove con-and con-and for H timc tho aiiperi-ncuroatic aiiperi-ncuroatic truck tires over the joli.l tire. When it is con-jat con-jat the Goodyear company in he test has caused each track Jed with several tons of air-'.s air-'.s bringing up the weight of i and load to nine tons gross, ,ikcs on national interest from that the remarkable speed at i. tracks have been traveling fact that neither truck has led because of mechanical b apparently due entirely to pneumatic casings with which s are shod all around. fks were piloted over the Linear Lin-ear from Boston to Salt Lake , Srott of the Goodyear facie fac-ie Goodyear pneumatic track used are 44 by 10, inflated to Is. No tire trouble was bad d to Salt Lake. his city to Sari Francisco the. t under the personal escort of tent, local Goodyear branch Ttho was joined here by H. C. li, field secretary of the Lin-iway Lin-iway association, on the run to ra-an of trucks and passenger lover the Lincoln highway last ;and eipectod to roach San I by the end of the week. Each 11 a relay of drivers and sleep-is sleep-is were provided just aft of the it. When not at the wheel the rivet takes a nap in the bunk-d bunk-d the car. Leaving Rait Lake :!:s made a remarkable run at ;gc speed ti thirty-seven miles not South State street and coiratv road to Magna. .he. belief of the Goodyear off i-,t i-,t this demonstration will prove rely the advantages of pneu-nck pneu-nck tires on long runs over the ft, where speed, economy and i of the track at the end of the re. vital factors.