Cycling and Motoring Notes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 September 1915, Page 3

Cycling and Motoring Notes.

i'mui the Dunlop 'Rubber Company ol Australasia, ior tlia week ending 4th September. 1915. #**#**••»

[ Fallacies cprtainly tlio hard, anu one of these is that the pneumatic tyre is even in these advanced days, a most vulnerable object lor the puncture fiend to attack. With this fallacy ever before them invoutors, very often without knowledge of mechanical and physical laws still exercise their ingenuity and, as a'result, a puncture proof tyre would appear to be invented on the average about once a week, and, apparently so long as the use of compressed air forms the basic principle of the pneumatic typo, inventors will continue to produce what is, in their opinion, the one and only one perfect nonpuncturing tyre. Which, nevertheless, usually fails to displace the ordinary standard tyre. What the average inventor of these tyre 6 fails to realise is that the steady improvement in .ho pneumatic tyre which has been in progress in recent years, has in effect, rendered actual puncture troubles neg ligible under fair conditions of + yro usage. Tii-is assumes that the tyro used is of a sizo and quality equal to work expected of it. If a tyre be overloaded it iwill be prone to puncture if nothing worse happens, 'although, even in this case the risk is nothing greater than a sporting one, as tlio users of numerous under-tyred cars must be aware of.