DANCER OF LOW INFLATION

New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12093, 21 March 1925, Page 14

DANCER OF LOW INFLATION

CASING DAMAGED. The Dunlop Rubber Company states that many motorists who have their cars shod with standard high pressure tyres are; owing to the publicity given to the low pressure or balloon type of tyre, endeavouring to get “balloon” comfort by running their tyres half-in-flated. Better travelling is undoubtedly obtained, but at a ruinous cost, for driving on nsufficientlyi inflated tyres constructed for high pressure means that the walls of the cover are overflexed and soon damages the best of casings; thereby considerably shortening their life on the road. It should be understood that the “balloon” type of tyre is specially constructed to withstand flexing on the walls, which are made, thinner with the object in view, whereas the atiffer sides of the standard type of cover when run “soft” -only engenders heat, which sets up loosening of the plies of cord of brhich the casing is constructed. Such treatment can ruin a cover in a few hundred miles of travel. Those motorists, who desire “balloon” comfort will find it a more profitable proposition if their car is shod with straight-sided rims to fit interchangeable “balloons” to existing rims than continuing to use stanaard-sizfed tyres and run them halfinflated. A wide range of “balloons” to fit s.s. rims is now listed by the Dunlop Company, whilst 4.40 sectioned balloons are also made for use on 30in x 3fin beaded edged rims. ;