MOTORING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 10

MOTORING.

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The percentage of wooden, wire, and stool wheels fitted to cars manufactured in the four leading, automobile countries of the world afford inteiostlne reading, and are as follows:—British: Wood wheol, 44.7 per cent.; wire wheel. 86-9 per cent.; steel whcoL 18.4 per cent. German: Wood wheel, 76.2 per cent.; wire wheel, 8.9 per cent.; steel wheel, 15.2 per cent. Fronch: Wood wheel, 78.2 per com.; wire wheel, 16.7 per cent.; steel wheel, fi.l per oent. American: Wood wheel, 98.2 act cent.; wire wheel, 1.8 per cent.; steel wheel. 0.0 per cent. Prom the figures given it will bo noticed that outside of England comparatively little progress has been made in the adoption of wire wheels. The percentage in America » surprisingly email. t> It is vory necessary, says the Dunlop Rubber Company, that careful and froouont examination should be made of one's tyres m™«S2T?« t S a,?d faults during the winter months. If these cuts extend at all deeply beyond the surface, and, in fact, get suapiciously near the canvas, the hole should a- once be plugged with rubber stopping. Unless the cutß are stopped a weak spit in a lyre wil sooner or later develop oloso to them. Water enters through the cut. attacks the canvas, and .causes rotting, bo that a smell weak spot is developed m the tyre If ap examination be made, of burst tyres, very frequents it will be found that the burst has started from a small cut which has perhutted water to rot the canvas. Its presence ffW«t«f«l *% the breakage l 'fnlTf the fabric because the ends of the faorio whew the cut is caused are comparatively clean cut. whereas when the sniwd end 3 °th " ttanda •**•«&