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Show Strung up wheels' booklet ii here i . . Opies May Ee Had at the Goodyear Branch Office. "Truins Up Wheels" is the practical tie of the first of a new series of tire conservation booklets, Just issued by the i;;roodiyear Tire Sz Rubber company, Akr 3n, Ohio. In Its message ia sho-nil the abnormal ,r'ear that an automobile tire undergoes ""hen rup ou ivheelB that are out of ligament. It shows how bumping into urbs, hitting bumps in the road, turn? g out into gutters, and similar strains re lilrely to throw a wheel out of "true" nd how tires run on wheels that are adly out of line travel with a skidding etion that, wears down treats' very lpidly. Tires on wheels that are in perroet JigJimeqt encounter only one source of j,, -lotion the grip of the tread on the "pad surface. In misaligned wheels -'nere is an additional source the grind r ig of tl-)e road at an angle to the wheel, he result iE the same a3 If the tire tere held against a revolving grind-;one-the tread grinds off abnormally. Any observing motorist may see daily lany cars operating on wheels that are it "true," wobhling along like a drunken Srson. and at the same time rolling the Ir owner's money away needlessly. Tire ion estimate that about one in every iree cars has one or more misaligned wheels that nre robbing their owners of thousands of tire miles. The only remedy for this, condition Is to test the Wheels frequently, particularly particu-larly after the car has suffered severe bumps and jolts. The new Goodyear booklet outlines a very simple method by which any car owner may determine for himself in a few minutes whether his money la being wobbled away by a misaligned wheel, and how the savings effected by the detection of misaligned wheels often mount up as high as 6000 miles in a single tire. Copies may be had by motorists upon application to Goodyear service stations or the company's com-pany's local branch office, Salt Lake city, Utah, 342 South State street. , 1 ' 1 |