Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-09
DIVERSIFIED
TIRE NEEDED
FOR SAFE
CARR Y|NG
Reynolds, Of Goodrich Concern,
Says Nearly All Cars Are Loaded
Beyond Capacity, While Tires
Are "Human" and Need Care.

IN discussing the questions raised
in an article by D. NJ. L. in the
October Issue Of The Automo-
lille, F. l. Reynolds, sales manager of
The pneumatic tire department of the
b. F. Goodrich Company, pointed out
the merits Of diversified tires.
In this article" Mr.. Reynolds said,
% L. NJ doubts the merit of over
sized tires for city work. There is
not the slightest doubt but that if
ideal conditions of the use of the orig
inal equipment of any automobile
we're followed, there would be no
necessity for diversified tires.
The manufacturer Of a car, after
due consultation with the manufac-
turer of the tire, selects an equip
ment which is quite sufficient for the
car as delivered by the manufacturer
with the presumption that the speci-
fled number of passengers of average
weight will be the most the car will
be required to carry.
But when the user of the car makes
his purchase, one of the earliest things
he does is to provide one or more
spares which more frequently than
otherwise he hangs on the back of the
car, and not infrequently, he adds one
or two extra as a matter of conven-
fence to the number Of passengers
designed to be carried in the car
Here is the first demand for a some
what larger tire.
FaIacy in Car Loading.
Again the diversified tire has a
thicker tread. The ordinary unex-
peCted damages to which a car is sub
jected will, as a matter of course, not
affect the diversified tire quite as Sc
riously as the regular equipment tire
because the thicker tread naturally
means that slight damages are pro-
portonately less penetrating.
THE thought of the average user
OF an automobile is that occasionally
overloading a car does not injure the
tire, and that il is necessary to con-
rinue to use the car overloaded in
order to have any bad effect. This is
not true. A mile drive with this
excess weight in the car may start
q deterioration that will continue of
Itself without any outside accelera-
tion until the tire has become use
less much quicker than is expected
of it.
The building Of tire is of such a
character that an unusual and severe
strain for even a short period of time
may start the plies of fabric to sep
arate or break some few threads in
one ply of fabrics, so that the action
of the part in itself will advance de-
teri0ration much more rapidly than
ordinary service.
An additional advantage in over
sized tires Is the easier riding quail
ties A car equipped with tires are re
CURED to perform up to the limit OF
what is expected of them must be in
iiated IN to the limit prescribed by
the manufacturer OF the tires in or
Ger to give the maximum amount OF
service. A tire that is carrying much
less in weight than the prescribed
capacity can be much less fully in
Hated.
New Tires Provided.
The writer recalls very clearly a
car Weighing $3.50 pounds. which was
equipped with SO by 4 tires by the
manufacturer, which gave according
TO he equipment an excess of 100
pounds without load. The users i'm
mediately removed the SO by 4 tires
and replaced them with 81 by IL
5ires which had a carrying capacity
OF 400 pounds. After the car was
provided with spare tires, robes,
blankets, fuel. oil, etc, the car was
Nelghed and found to Meigh $500