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Show Tire Conservation Dees Not Mean Big Repairing Shabby tires on a good looking car ! Yet stand on any street corner today f.nd count the number of patched-up. dilapidated tires which are being used to the last mile. The cost of keeping thee tires running for a few thousand thou-sand miles would nearly pay fv new ones. Slileage such as this comes high. Tire conservation does not mean picking up a docrepit tire and putting it back into service at a big repair .osr jtii't to save a little rubber left in the tread. It means taking care of toe tire from the first so that it will be nble to deliver all the mileagr-bui-t into it by the maker. When tires are so far worn that they are soon to blow, it is poor economy to repair them. Such a course means sacrifice of the inner tube as well. Cheap, makeshift patches, boots and temporary repairs of all kinds are now being called into use, as never before, but patching up an old casing in which separation of fabric plies has already begun, cannot give the freedom from tire trouble on which the pleasure in motoring so largely depends. |