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Show AUTO IS KING INfELUpNE Salt Lake Manager of the Goodyear Company Tells of Recent Transition. : ''Mention of Yellowstone park bhouii no longer brinfr to the inini visiona of six-horse stagecoaches or of teams plo'l-(lin plo'l-(lin mountain slopes ahead of rakish touribt carriages or creaking supply wagons," says T. H. Trent, lo'al manager man-ager for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company. " Tho actual seene inside Gardiner 1 entrance at present is far different, for the 1800-head herd of fine horses has been sold, likewise the stages, and big motor busses and trucks ranye the '.Y.UH square miles. "The period of transition since 1917 : has been a period of test; it. has in volved a search for pneumatic tires of unusually powerful construction, for I pneumatics fitteil to maintain a heavy workinj schedule week after week, without delay or even momentary em- ! barrassment. I ''Today the outcome of the two-year investigation is noted in the placing of a Goodyear pneumatic cord truck tire I on every wheel of 104 heavy units, com prising the ninety-seven ten-passenger busses, mounted on standard motor ' truck chassis, and the seven general duty motor trucks. "With the adoption of these pneumatic pneu-matic truck tires has been developed a system of swift dispatch; thousands of sightseers are carried over great distances dis-tances daily; the whole flow of a tre-nicndouB tre-nicndouB traffic is regulated with military mil-itary exactness on the pneumatic tires, and enormous amounts of time are saved above what horses or solid-tired I units might cousume. i '"This, oh.viouoly one of the nation's ! largest highway transportation euter- . prises, consequently has as its founda- ij tion the reliability of Goodyear pneu- matic cord truck tires, just as the haul-!j haul-!j ing plans of many extensive businesses ! now are based on the traction, cushion- ing, quickness and stamina of these tires." |