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Show WINTER STORAGE ; 01 OF TIRES The skin is thick on the belly of the codfish and the fur is heavy on the bat k of the squirrel, so prepare for a lone, hard w inter. Many motorists will soon put heir cars in. the barn for the winter and think no more of motor riding until about the first of March. Many automobile tires will go into storage with thousands of miles of wear left in them, and car owners should take tho few precautions nec-try nec-try to keep them from damage while they are not in use. Here are some recommendations made by tho service department of the United States Tire company to the motorist who wants to put his tires away and lind them in good shape next spring: 1 Wash tiros carefully on outside to remove oil and other harmful substances. sub-stances. 2 Remove tires from wheels and wrap In paper or old carpet. r. Slnrfi in o rnr.l rlrv nlonr. ttti (from light Heat, light "and moisture !are enemies of rubber 4. Cold has no bad effect on tires, but they should be properly housed. 5. If tires are left on car, jack up the car, deflate the tires and wrap them in covers. 6. Don't let ear stand on tires all j winter To do so means weakening j them in the parts that rest on the floor. I One phase of the suitability of the ! automobile tire for the work it is call ed on to do which is seldom thought of is the fact that it completely eliminates elim-inates tire noise as a car speeds along on its journey. Although the primary function of a tire Is to smooth out the minor inequalities in-equalities of the road's surface, the elimination of noise made possible by the use of rubber is a very substantial substan-tial contribution to the success of the (automobile. What a clatter thousands jof cars equipped with steel tires going I up Fifth avenue at 20 miles an hour would make, suggests the United States Tire company. This feature of noiselessness fully appreciated by Robert W. Thompson, the Englishman who in 1845 applied for the first patent on pneumatic tires. His patent related tc I "the application of elastic bearings around the tires of wheels of carriages, i rendering their motion easier and diminishing di-minishing the noise they make while ln motion." |
