Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-09-23 | Page 27 | New Tires Speed up Trucks Revolutionize Heavy Hauling Goodyear Proves Superiority

New Tires Tire pee peed Up p Trucks ruc s Rev Revolutionize ze Heavy envy Hauling Goodyear Proves Superiority I Two young heavyweights the babies of their respective tive families Little Pat Ober is not yet 2 1 years old He is the son of Mr and Mrs George Georg C. C Ober Pats Pat's father is one of the best known hotelmen in m the fhe United States He is at present chief clerk at the tile Utah The big tire I is one of Goodyears Goodyear's new babies that are destined to make nuke truck motoring almost as I fast as the pleasure variety Y t OSa q t tx a R F t pi h. h I m c. c i r 1 4 c s f 4 fl I h f x i I Air Cushioned Tubes Are Demonstrated to Be Bethe Bethe the Modern Tires for Economy and nd Dispatch I I I I I Goodyear dealers between Akron and Boston stationed on the Lincoln hIghway highway highway high hIgh- way and the Boston Post road a route that leads through Pittsburg Pittsburg Pitts- Pitts burg Bedford McConnellsburg ChamI Chambersburg Chambersburg Cham- Cham Gettysburg York Lancaster Philadelphia Trenton New York Bridgeport New Haven Hartford Springfield and Worcester have be become become become be- be come much Interested In the motor I truck transportation line which since last April has been operating over 1 this route hauling tires to Goodear's Eastern branches returning laden with cotton fabric from the Goodyear cotton cotton cotton cot cot- ton mills in Goodyear Conn At first there was a disposition to regard the Goodyear Innovation as a publicity measure but the steady plugging plugging plug plug- I I ging of ot the ton five-ton Packard along the route on a seven-day seven schedule soon convinced all doubting that the project had been inaugurated hot of ofas as an advertising venture but as a commercial transportation enterprise THE ANSWER Goody GOodyears GOodyear's ears ear's answer to the many queries that have come from all parts parts' of the country as to the success of the innovation now comes in the form of an addition of three trucks to the pioneer pioneer pioneer pio pio- neer Packard thus forming a fleet of four This now consists of two Packards Packards Packards Pack- Pack ards and two Whites all of which are with pneumatic cord tiresA tires A regular schedule is being maintained main main- At various points along the route starting and leaving times are wired to the Goodyear factory at Arron Ar- Ar ron As each truck Is equipped with a a sleeping berth the two drivers In charge operate In relays without the charge operate in relays without the loss of any running time The route chosen Is the only available available avail avail- able one open The northern route via Buffalo Syracuse and Albany could probably be used to better advantage If it v were vere ere not for the lightness of some of the bridges over which h the trucks I would have to pass The steepest grade Is about 18 per cent and the longest mountain pull approximately five miles Little difficulty Is experienced experienced experienced in ascending the Allegheny mountains but great care Is necessary I in descending them owing to the many I sharp hairpin curves When once the mountains are crossed I greater speeds can be maintained One of the trucks a ton three-ton chassis with witha I a 45 horsepower motor can reach a ai i maximum speed of forty miles an hour and maintain a speed of thirty miles an hour for long distances The largest ton five-ton trucks are somewhat slower having a pulling speed or twenty miles an hour The Boston Akron-Boston schedule calls caUs for an average speed of often often often ten miles an hour including all stops for supplies meals etc PNEUMATIC CORDS The whole enterprise is made practical practical practical through the use of large pneumatic 7 matic cord tires Without them satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory satis satis- factory speeds could not be maintained the trucks would rattle themselves to pieces The cushioning qualities of these big tires allow the trucks to ride I over the roads as easily as the average touring car These big cord tires have opened up upa a new field for transportation lines and I Incidentally cord tire business business busi busi- ness Many trucks that have been plugging away on solid tires will soon change to pneumatics to make the desired desired de tie- sired speed Trucks making ten miles an hour on solid tires may go twice that speed on pneumatics with both bothi JUre t i tire wear and gasoline g consumption re reduced reduced ref re- re f materially I That other concerns are seeking re relief relief re- re lief from the congested traffic conditions conditions conditions condi condi- existing existing- on our railroads Is evidenced evidenced evidenced evi evi- by the Interest manifested by byI them In the Goodyear truck line which which I presages the use of many of these big I tires in similar service In the near fu future future fu- fu ture