DRIVING COMFORT
NEW RUBBER CAR SEATS A leading British rubber company has produced a new type of motor car seat which has unusual features, and which is said to add materially to the comfort of driving. The seat is made entirely of moulded rubber in the same shape and of the same dimensions of the conventional sprung seats which it is intended to replace. The top and sides are of solid, finegrained rubber, but from below vertical cavities either rectangular or circular in shape, are let into the rubber nearly up to the top surfaee. These cavities are bounded by substantial rubber walls. The rubber on the bottom of the seat is hard , and fairly dense in texture, and that on , the top surfaee is extremely soft and resilient. The rubber seats are intended to be covered with any of the materials in which the interior of cars are usually finished. Riding tests with seats made in this fashion have proved so satisfactory that it is expeeted that many of the British models of 1932 will be equipped with them. Not only are they softer, more resilient, and less liable to wear than ordinary sprung seats, but they also possess to a most marked degree the property of protecting passengers from' vibration from the body of the car.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 82, 27 November 1931, Page 7
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218DRIVING COMFORT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 82, 27 November 1931, Page 7
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