RUBBER WHEELS.

Waikato Times, Volume 114, Issue 19065, 2 October 1933, Page 8

RUBBER WHEELS.

USE ON FARM -VEHICLES, The much lower value of rubber has induced an English company to make pneumatic rubber tyres for farm carts and tractors. And these are declared to he a great sucoess and a definite means of economy. One farmer, who lives near the Duniop works and has had longer experience of running his farm carts “on air” l than any other farmer in England—■ testing out the first ones made —says Hint the difference between running on rubber wheels and the oldfashioned cart is almost unbelievable. He found that a horse which could not move 15cwt of potatoes in an ordinary cart upon an incline sodden with rain could take 25cwt of potatoes up the same incline (gradient 1 m 15, finishing 1 in 10) with ease cn "land tyres.” Along the furrows at sowing time, when the field was fairly dry, the horse pulled 20cwt on ordinary wheels. The farmer declares that a pair of land tyres does the work of one horse. Of course there Is not the jolting with rubber tyres there is with ordinary wheels. In the small movable poultry houses for farm poultry being extensively adopted in England a rubber wheel is being used with one type of house for moving from day to day. These rubber tyres for farm tractors are being rapidly taken up by Home farmers, so that they apparently have the advantages and economy claimed for them.