Show OLDFiElD TIRE IE IS iSS DAREDEVILS DAREDEVIL'S OWN ON S Famous Races Had Them Made to Meet Exacting Conditions R P C c. Henderson manager of the Barney Barney Barney Bar- Bar ney Oldfield Tire company has just re received received re- re a new stock of the Barney Oldfield Oldfield Old- Old j field tires He stated that business was good and that the the- tires were fast making friends He has a copy of a letter Barney Oldfield Oldfield Old Old- field wrote recently to a friend in which he comments on modern thrills Its getting harder every year to thrill the people comments Barney dean of all the thrillers but now a prosperous tire manufacturer I I watch them these days from the grandstand and I guess Im I'm the worst worried man on deck while somebody risks his life lite out in front Jumping from one airplane into another or doing some similar stunt where the odds are apparently apparently all aU against himA himA him A friend wrote me the other day that I was lucky airplanes were not in tn use when Henry l Ford ord hired me to pilot his famous and I guess he was right I merely took the liveliest excitement 1 could find If there'd been any riskier way to mal make e a living Id I'd have probably have picked it it And automobile racing in those days was about as dangerous as it looked The cars were only experiments Tire building and designing were in their in In- In fancy When in 1903 I circled a mile track in a minute the minute the first time the feat had ever been performed performed-I I had a tiller instead of a wheel to steer with I and virtually ruined worth of tires in a a. single lapIn lapIn lap In those days tires were our biggest I source of expense and danger If Jf f I hadn't solved the tire problem for myself with tires of my own design built especially to my specifications Id I'd undoubtedly I have gone broke or killed myself early in my career Several times It looked like a close finish between debt and death the constable or the coroner his retirement from racing a ay y year ear ar ago Mr Oldfield has steadfastly declined alt all offers to appear in public He is giving his entire time to the Oldfield Oldfield Oldfield Old- Old field Tire company which under his management is rapidly assuming rank among the large manufacturers of the country |