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Show of all the cars wearing cord tires and 40 per cent of all cars, irrespective of the type of pneumatic tjre used, are making these difficult journeys on Goodrich Good-rich tires. One large manufacturer that has made overland deliveries of many fleets of passenger cars, to points throughout the central states and the east, reports a perfect record for the winter not an instance of trouble en route. The reports of others are similar. good and other conditions were favorable, favor-able, as a special courtesy to some big dealer whose needs were imperative. Motor vehicles today, however, are being delivered over the public highways high-ways as a matter of necessity no other method being available. The great scarcity of freight cars has been so severe as to allow some automobile manufacturers only as many cars weekly week-ly as were formerly used daily for making mak-ing deliveries. So public highway delivery has been resorted to out of sheer necessity with road conditions that formerly would have received no eonsideration whatever. what-ever. Thousands of automobiles and trucks 'are now being delivered over poor roads, rendered all but impassable because be-cause of deep mud and, in some instances, in-stances, these roads have suddenly become be-come choked up for days at a "time, because of spring thaws and rains. But despite these adverse conditions deliveries are being effected and it is interesting to note that 75 per cent GOODRICH TIRES USED IN DRIVEAWAYS Pneumatic Oasirrgs Take Precedence in Equipment of All Classes of Motor Cars. The present winter season has seen many precedents established in the motor world, but it is doubtful if a more practical one has been inaugurated inaug-urated than that adopted by manv of our automobile and truck manufacturers of delivering a considerable part of their output under its own motive power. Motorists traveling our main highways high-ways have for several months noted a great increase in the number of motor vehicles delivered in this manner, particularly par-ticularly toward the eastern seaboard, from the central states. ; Of course, a considerable numfi.r of oars and truck6 have undergoni?, ,such delivery methods in the past; as a rule, delivery has been made irring the summer months, when roewere |