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Evening Star, Issue 20428, 8 March 1930, Page 21

THE QUID KNOW vtiatlßlMfvlVk v *A«»a«»araaaaaV: . / \ \ ■fe¥' SsiHETY MILE beMq m s m / % AM m \ \ y E ww///m^ \\\ !nJm anxv INDIANAPOLIS PEAK BROOK LANDS ACROSS USA. INTERNATIONAL On the great Indianapolis Speedway every 500-mile race for the past ten years has heen won on Firestone Gum-Dipped 'JTires, in 1925 Peter De Paolo doing 500 miles at 101 m.p.h. for a world record. Last year’s annual 500 mile race was won by Ray Keech at an average of 97*5. m.p.h., the winner and NEXT FIVE JO FINISH using Firestone Balloons, The famous Pike’s Peak Annual races brought forth last year an outstanding record for the endurance and safely of Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires. In these .races a Firestone equipped car lowered the stock car record time, followed closely by the second and third prize winners, also on Firestone. On March 26th of last year a standard model of a well known car carryng its full five passenger Saloon body with full touring equipment and fitted with Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires created a sensation at Brooklands by establishing two International Class B Records namely 200 Kilometers and 200 miles. The average speed in the 200 miles event was 77*77 m.p.h. The well-known racing driver “ Cannon Ball ” Baker in 1927 drove a fully loaded 2-ton truck from the Atlantic to the Pacific—a distance of 3,693 miles—in 237 hours and 36 minutes. This fastest and longest truck run on record was made on Firestone Gum-Dipped Heavy Duly Pneumatics WITHOUT A TIRE CHANGE. “A thousand times more difficult than its name suggests ”, says M The Motor ” of the great International Contest of 1,850 miles from Stockholm to Monte Carlo won last year in the amazing time of 74 hours 17 minutes, by a stock model Firestone eqnipp* ed car against 93 of the world’s finest cars, under conditions so terrible that only 24 finished in time. , NINETY MILE fiEAC-H NEW ZEALAND Crowning this impressive list of records that have been made on Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires throughout the world, is the recent sensational achievement, right on our own shores, of Wizard Smith who established a new World’s record for 10 miles at an average speed of 148*637 m.p.h. on Ninety Mile Beach. These actual world records in every conceivable phase of service should be your guide in buying tires. i S! p p a i w