Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-10-27 | Page 34 | Pneumatics Win out on Heavy Trucks

PNEUMATICS WIN OUT 01 HEflW TRUCKS Manager Trent, Goodyear Branch, Explains Con struction of Cords. The rapidity with which Goodyear's big cord truck tires are taking hold in thie territory is astonishing. T. B. Trent, manager of the Salt Lake Goodyear branch, in commenting on this fact, had the following to say; "Fully 95 per cent of the trucks In the intermountain country that are using pneumatic truck tires ar.e using Goodyear Cords. "The reason for this enormous popularity popu-larity is easily apparent when it is considered con-sidered that for five years Goodyear has been building pneumatic truck tires, whereas no other company awoke to the situation until a comparatively short time ago. "Goodyear found, after many costly experiments, ex-periments, that the methods which produce pro-duce a good automobile tire will not necessarily nec-essarily turn out a satisfactory pneumatic pneu-matic truck tire. It might seem to the casual observer that satisfactory tires might be made as large as desired by the simple expedient of adding more layers of fabric and putting more rubber in the tread, but in actual practice this is far from the case, and it has taken Goodyear years to bring its product to the point of practical perfection at which it is today. to-day. "Hence it is plainly apparent that it will be a matter of years until any other tire company can approach Goodyear in the quality of its pneumatic truck tires, or, in fact, until this same trying period of experiment has been gone through with. "Big, heavy trucks, rolling smoothly along on Goodyear Cords, are becoming a common sight in Utah. Some of the users of this type of equipment are the Utah Oil Refining company, McPhee Piano Moving company. Royal Baking company. Mine & Smelter Supply company, com-pany, Eldridge-Hatch Furniture company, com-pany, Moab Garage , company, Monty Young and a large number of others. "Some of the owners are receiving as high as 18,000 miles per tire, and all are unanimous in their praise of Goodyear's big Cords."