Show BUY LIFEGUARD TUBES AKRON OHIO april 30 following blowouts blow outs at high speeds were resOn responsible sible for a large proportion of the 1 deaths aal injuries caused by automobile accidents in 1934 these figures recently relea released sei by a large insurance eoin company pany also show that automobiles were wrecked by blowouts blow outs during 1 I t the ie year with average driving speeds increasing a danger of serious accident following a blowout increase and need of some sort of safety device ipe comes inea more and more apparent engineers of tile the goodyear tire rubber ber co believe they have the answer to the problem in the new goodyear lifeguard tube for automobile tires recently made available to motorists it is a well known fact that danger eri from a blowout increases four times when veed speed is doubled declared a goodyear Goody oar executive that nat 1 is 13 3 a blowout at 8 SO miles per hour is four timi cinitis 9 as dangerous as one at 40 miles mile per hour goodyear engineers were assigned the problem of developing a 1 safety device to combat this danger several years ago after testing out more than 1300 types of tube construction the new lifeguard is the result the lifeguard is in a I 1 double tube one inside the other and coill joined ed together at tile the base with the inner and outer chambers conne connected eted only by a single small vent bole when a blowout occurs air escapes instantly from the out outside ile tule tabe but can estipa from the inner air chamber only thru tile the small mail vent liole hole the t tire ire drops down to ride on the inside tube which I 1 is built up of two piles of fabric and ill the driver has several minutes in which to bring ills his car to a stop under perfect control without endangering ti his bis car or the lives of other mot motorists orits hundreds of tests were conducted in which tires were purposely mown blown out by dynamite C caps aps by i i auto automatic matte i knives and by rul running liling tile them over pa plates s with chiw huge e railroad spikes and lit in every case the the lifeguard tulle tube allowed the driver to continue do down the highway in complete control of the C car when ordinary tubes were blown swerved violently off tile out the car roadway and skill of the profusion i r ta test t car driver was taxed to lie utmost it to avoid serious accident 1 |