IMPROVING TYRE MILEAGE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1929, Page 13

IMPROVING TYRE MILEAGE.

In discussing I lie treatment of pneumatic tyres the “Commercial Motor” says: Foremost comes the necessity of accurate wheel alignment. This is tremendously important, and its test and correction are so simple and easy—many tyre service stations will do "the work for nothing—that it is now realised to be folly to overlook it The question of brake maintenance conies next. Snatchy and irregular use of brakes cause excessive tyre wear, and brakes which overheat as the result of being tco closely adjusted cause disintegration of tyres through that heat. Tyres which are under-inflated get hot and depreciate rapidly from that cause. Finally, there is that very prevalent tendency to overload commercial vehicles which, if ncrsisted in, has the same effect upon the tyre ns regular under-inflation. All f hose points, as we have stated, have been b’ought borne to users in one way or another. Ir is by attention to them, is well as by improved tvre construction, that the remarkable mileages now so common with giant pneumatic tyres are achieved.