COLOURED TYRES
THE LATEST NOVELTY It has been announced by cablegrams from London that tyres coloured to match motor-car bodies are the latest novelty in England. Birmingham dye experts have, it is stated, devised shades of blue, green, maroon, and yellow for tyres, which will withstand the severest road tests. It is hoped the innovation will make 1931 models even more attractive than those now used. In this colourful age dye-coloured tyres may find acceptance in trade circles and among certain motorists. Coloured covers have already been used, and red tyres used frequently to be seen. The colour of these covers was, of course, introduced when compounding the rubber, and the colour was permanent. The English suggestion apparently does not apply to this method of manufacturing coloured tyres, but evidently refers to colour impregnation of surface of outside of cover by dye after its construction, somewhat after the method of applying the special tyre paints marketed today. With the use of penetrating dyes, the colour would, no doubt, be more permanent. Further details of the Birmingham experiments will be awaited by many motorists with interest.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 6
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185COLOURED TYRES Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1066, 2 September 1930, Page 6
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