"SAFETY FIRST"
Official figures issued by the London Safety First Council in connection with its tyre skid tests on a wet smooth section of road in that city show that the average results of tests of smooth worn tyres as compared with eleven different makes of new tyres were as follows:
New Tyres.—2o m.p.h., 25ft; 25 m.p.h., 40ft; 30 m.p.h., 60ft; 35 m.p.h., 85ft.
Smooth Tyres.—2o m.p.h., 40ft; 25 m.p.h., 65ft; 30 m.p.h., 100 ft; 35 m.p.h., 140 ft.
These figures disclose how much safer it is to drive on wet bitumen faced streets and roads on tyres with welldefined patterned treads. The differences in the stopping distances represent, in many instances, the difference between avoiding trouble and meeting with trouble*
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 28
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121"SAFETY FIRST" Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 28
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