LESS TYRE MILEAGE NOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 6

LESS TYRE MILEAGE NOW

MODERN CARS NEED SPECIAL TYRES During recent years motor-cars have been improved enormously, acceleration has been increased, and fourwheel brakes introduced, with the result that higher average speeds can be maintained, and the new low-hung design of car, with the centre of gravity close to the road, makes fast cornering possible, and helps further to increase road speeds. All these features have meant additional strain on tyres, with the result that mileages obtained have not always been as satisfactory as in the past. This has been the experience in Europe and America, where roads are good, and it has been felt very much more in the Dominion, where good surfaces compare very unfavourably with those in older countries. The introduction of the balloon tyre, also, while giving very much greater comfort on rough roads, has not proved an unmixed blessing to the New Zealand motorist, since he has found it much more liable to give trouble under severe conditions. There has, therefore, been a feeling among many motorists that something better and stronger in the way of motor tyres is required, and it is interesting to note that the Dunlop Rubber Company are marking the fortieth ! anniversary of the invention of the pneumatic tyre by introducing a new range of motor covers, which are

specially designed to meet conditions such as exist in the Dominion. Specially constructed to have a very great reserve of strength, they should be welcomed throughout the country to fill a long-felt want. This special cover is distinguished by a coloured medallion on the side- j wall, and should appeal particularly j to those who use their under ; specially severe conditions, and who , pay particular regard to the cost a j mile of their tyres. 7. :