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Show ' era! sales manager of the company, "lies in the fact that it soon shows up weak or defective points of manufacture. manufac-ture. We knew that road testing would soon reveal the strength or weakness of our cord tire building methods. "The idea of employing in tbe building build-ing of this particular product only those men of at least ten years' experience in tire building, and of checking up their personal efficiency to the finest degree, was regarded by many as either a strictly advertising proposition or the work of a manufacturing crank. There was only one idea back of it, however, and that was 'an extraordinarily high and uniform mileage. ' That aim ha5 been accomplished." CORDS WITHSTAND EXHAUSTIVE TEST High Po-wered Cars Try Out Miller Casings on Long Overland Over-land Trip. Four big, travel-stained Pierce-Arrow cars rolled into the parage of the Miller Rubber company of Akron the other day, thereby ending a 79,iJ00-mile endur-cars endur-cars rolled into the garage of the Miller uniform cord tires. It was the most exhaustive road test this particular product of the company had ever been subjected to and the result is said to have been very encouraging to the Miller organization. Leaving Akron on the .10th of December, Decem-ber, tho drivers had instructions to "give the tires the limit" in the way of abuse and hard wear. The fleet of four cars, two of which weighed G0UU pounds each, immediately headed for Orlando, Fla., where the warm winter sun was to add further strain on tho hard-working tires. Day in and day out, over city streets and sharply winding country road, in rain and shine, the heavy cars plunged forward on the Miller cords. In spite of the stiff grind more se verc than the average car will see in a lifetime of service some of the tires attained a mileage of more than 15,000 miles, while seven, eight and teu thou-.-ai.ds miles were common. e "The benefit derived bv road Irt-inr. Irt-inr. " explained Frank C. Millhofi'. Ha |