Rubber from Old Tyres
It is not always the wearing of the -tread of a motor-truck or ear tyre which causes its relegation lo the trash heap. Among the many hundreds of tyres which have be<ui acquired in Wellington by the Nar tional Council i'or the Reclamation of Waste Material there are cozens which look good for perhaps another 2000 miles as far as the. tread Is concerned. Some inspected in the: heap showed only the slightest, wealin the design of the tread, yet these had been discarded. Ths reason was that the." walls' had given way. The rubber content, however, was still gooil for service for a dozen purposes. Many an old lyre which has done good .service under .some hard-vo-king truck may yet figure as gumboots in the. Pacific Islands or as an c'ccirie battery case in India or Burma. Old rubber ©ever dies; it only fades away.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 50, 18 February 1944, Page 5
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150Rubber from Old Tyres Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 50, 18 February 1944, Page 5
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