USE FOR OLD TYRES
Where do the old tyres go? An innovation in footwear is' found in Greece Macedonia, and Thrace, where discarded tyre casings sre converted into shoes, supplanting the leather tcharik. A shoe made from an old tyre is good for 10 months or 12 months of wear :>: compared with less than throe months for tehariks made of hide. Economy, and protection from winter dampness have given tiie acw footwear universal popularity among the Macedwi-.an peasants and villager*. The demand is ■-•> great that the iocai supply is insufficient and the imports of used casings amount to 50,000 a year. Each casing yields three pairs of shoes, selling for about 2i Gd a pair. The imports came *r<im France ami ft generous proportion of the eld tyres thus brought in finds use on motor vehicles lii Mexico also, there is widespread use of old tyres for footr/eer. The eastora of the Mexican peon is to cut a piece of rubber to lit the s<% of his" foot, and bind it to the ioct by means of leather thongs.
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Otaki Mail, 15 August 1928, Page 3
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179USE FOR OLD TYRES Otaki Mail, 15 August 1928, Page 3
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