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Show notable than it was. Knowing that the convoy could not be delayed even an hour on Its scheduled trip across the country, T. B. Trent of the Rubber Products company com-pany made a special trip to Kvanston and arranged with Colonel McClure, commanding com-manding the expedition, for prompt application appli-cation of Goodyear tires they knew the train would need when it arrived in Salt Lake. The Rubber Products service, according to Mr. Bennett, so pleased Colonel McClure Mc-Clure that he gave every assistance ' in seeing that the trucks were brought around to the Rubber Products company. and even furnished mechanics to assist in removing the wheels. A preat majority ma-jority of the Goodyear tires came through without a scratch, which is really remarkable remark-able and probably accounts for the fact that the commander pave the Goodyear Tire & Rubber company more than DO per cent of his business while in Salt Lake. "This great tribute by a man who ha.s had more experience in cross-country work on motor trucks than any man living serves to show," says Mr. Bennett, "what critical users think of Ooodycar truck tires." THe Rubber Products company, it Is stated, has now become the largest and most complete truck tire service station in the west, and Mr. Bennett places full credit for this on the fact that he Is handling the wonderfully popular Goodyear Good-year truck tires. Commander of U. S. Army Train Shows Admiration , for Service. , Probably the biggest truck tire jo"b ever handled in this part of the country was finished last week by tho Goodyear Tire & Rubber company and the Rubber Products Prod-ucts company, the Goodyear service station. sta-tion. The sixty army trucks in the big transcontinental trans-continental convoy have given truck tires the most severe test possible in their long trip ucroaa plains and mountains from Washington, T). C., to -Salt Lake. The tires on these big, heavy trucks have been subjected to every form of abuso and punishment pun-ishment and naturally results have been watched with interest by all connected with the truck tire world. As Goodyear tires equipped more of the trucks than any other make, naturally natural-ly the government's preference can be counted as being for this make. Nevertheless, Never-theless, there are a number of other makes of tires being used which made the performance per-formance of the Goodyear tires even more |