WIRE WHEELS AND TIRE WEAR.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4430, 21 June 1922, Page 4

WIRE WHEELS AND TIRE WEAR.

I Now that steel disc motor-car I wheels are getting fairly numerous lon the roads it would be interesting and instructive to hear, whether the use of these rigid metal wheels has any effect in increasing tire wear as against the use of wire wheels. The general experience of; the automobile trade and motoring public is said to be that the wire wheel, the most popular form, of automobile wheel on the road to-day tends to long life of; the tire, a fact that has been borne out by many tests carried out under varying conditions. As tire upkeep is an important factor with, most motorists, the bearing of wheel design on tire wear is important. The wire wheel of to-day is believed to be, weight for weight, the strongest wheel that has been devised. It has become recognised as the ideal wheel for safety, comfort, and the lightening of. tire wear. Some time back an interesting test was conducted in England over an aggregate of 250,000 miles. One hundred tines were selected, all of one size,. Fifty were fitted to wire wheels and fifty ,to wheels that were not of wire. ' The covers'on tha wire wheels gave an average of 3454 miles each; those on the less resilient wheels ran an average of 2050 miles.