Show I 1 RC wm FUEL SAVED BY GOOD ROADS wear wea r and nd tear on an trucks and amount of gasoline co Consumed burned shown in recent ohio test A test conducted in ohio recently to determine the saving s ving in gasoline from rom running over a 0 good rond ns as compared with pas gas consumption over bat and medium grade crade disclosed a surprising difference five new army standard A trucks with seven different types of rond road service showed a gain of six miles per gallon of fuel hempen between the best anil and worst types ot of roads mods all the trucks were empty dur ing inc the test the trucks loaded showed chrit the poor road took seven times n as much gasoline per mile ns as the good one the test results showed on an average of miles per rallon gallon over oer a dirt road in good condition over er fair gravel 01 over good gravel grap about the same over fair bituminous milend am and good brick roods roads 1144 11 44 over extra estra smooth brick anti and I 1 1178 over oer goos concrete the saving laving to the motoring purtle in gasoline alone would amount to millions of dollars annually perhaps equal to this would he be tire the solving in tires which Is considered as important tin nn item of car upkeep as Is gasoline calculating the saving in near and tear on tire the mechanism of cars ani trucks and also the item of time lost by poor roads adequate highways ore are undoubtedly a sane investment |