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Show CUSHION SAVES ROAD That the public Is awakening to the necessity of protecting their hard surface highways with some form of a cushion to prevent their destruction by the triphammer effect ef-fect of the growing traffic is evidence evi-dence by motor license laws in various vari-ous states which reduce the amount iof the license for vehicles using pneumatic tires. The modern motor car would last but a few months traveling at the speed it does without the cushioning cush-ioning effect of rubber on its wheels. The slow moving truck gets along with hard rubber but the fast moving mov-ing vehicle must have the added cushion of air between its rim and the pavement to save it from destruction, destruc-tion, i What is happening to a cement, brick r macadam surfae which has no cushioning wearing surface when the terrific hammering which it receives by passing vehicles is kept up year after year? It is eventually crystallized and shattered the same as would be the modern automobile without its cushion cush-ion of tires. In order to save our highways which have cost the taxpayers hundreds hun-dreds of millions of dollars, it is now recognized generally that In building build-ing these roads or In saving the roads which are already built it is essential that whatever the base of their construction con-struction may be, it would be protected pro-tected with a cushioned wearing surface sur-face to save it from eventual destruction de-struction . |
