BOON TO MOTORISE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 657, 9 October 1933, Page 4

BOON TO MOTORISE

REMARKABLE DEMONSTF OF LOW PRESSURE TYRES LATEST INVENTIOS A remarkable demonstratioi added safety and comfortof a car equipped with low p tyres was given in Rotorua ra day afternoon by representaf the Michelin Tyre Company.j driving such as would bave ira caused the capsizing of a car on high-pressure tyres was il in within the limits of 0 Street, and the driver twista turned his car and went roa round in circles in a most a way. . Not once did the vehicj the slightest sign of any teni] lift even one wheel from tbel and the demonstrator assl "Post" representative wlio i sent that on wet bitumen a| more convincing demonstratiil be given. The real utility of] pressure tyre, however, isl course in the safety -withwMi driving may be performed; pose of the display of zig-zaga circling was merely to showffl tenacity the car could hoHl road on all four wheels ifl alarming circumstances that M the history of even the beja when they run into a skid, efl as a result of running on tfl patch of road or of encounB reckless driver coming the ofl and monopolising most of tfl way. M Another virtue, and pertljB most striking, of the low 9 tyre is that oWing to its gr«® lience it absorbs the shocb j over any sort of bump or onB such as large metal, raitiay9 potholes, whereas the higWS9 tyre causes the car to boune9 road and take the shock into® of the car — and, of courjB driver. That f eature of tM stration was particularly ^9 The pressure of these t/M from 111b. to 241b. whicb* mately half tbe pressure r* ordinary balloon tyres. _ Tte® made to fit standard