ENEMY TO TYRES

Evening Star, Issue 24281, 24 August 1942, Page 5

ENEMY TO TYRES

The national effort to conserve rubber and obtain all the discarded old rubber goods in Australia with, a view to reclaiming the scrap to provide tyres end other essential rubber requirements for war purposes should be supplemented by the stiffening up of regulations in respect to the breaking of bottles on our streets and highways (says the ‘Dunlop Bulletin’). One of the greatest enemies of pneumatic tyre life in our cities aud populous centres is the tendency of some unthinking adults and children to carelessly or deliberately break bottles, also to throw other matter destructive to tyros on our streets. Such practices—frequently malicious —now amount to downright sabotage, and should be curbed rigorously by the authorities.

A campaign to educate both adults and children against the continuance of such practices should be immediately undertaken. Motor tyres are too precious now to have their life shortened, and frequentlyended, owing to being gashed by broken glass. hTe authorities have it in their power to inflict heavy penalties that should put a stop to the breaking of milk and beer bottles‘On our streets. In the case of milk bottles accidentally broken through carelessness during delivery or collection, drastic measures should be taken to see that milkmen sweep up the dangerous glass instead of leaving it scattered on the roadway; where it is a menace to pedestrians, cyclists, and motor traffic.