The Pensacola journal., 1920-03-07
JITNEYS ARE AMONG
GREAT TIRE USERS

The vast increase in jitney traffic
throughout the country is another
reason for the tremendous demand for
tires that keeps Akron manufacturers
working day and night in vain en-
deavor to catch UP with the orders
that are rolling in, according. to ad-
vices from that city.
The advantage of the motor vehicle
have been just as impressively demon
strated in connection with public SER
vice transportation as in the case OF
countless other lines of business. it is
pointed out. All of which is decided
ly interesting when ii is recalled that
only short time ago the idea of So
called jitneys making serious inroads
in the business of street car COM
panies and railroads was generally
scoffed at.
f. c. Millhoff, general sales man
ager of the Miller Rubber Co, in an
interview the other day, offered some
figures from Newark, n. j., showing
the immense volume OF business in
that city. During the month of Sep
tember~ Newark jitneys alone carried
3,41S, ,289 passengers and showed total
receipts amounting to s170,914. Out
of this total the jitneys paid Newark
S6,S12 in taxes.
AInOuSn september leu al pItNAOuS
iitney months in Newark, the figures
were by no means out of proportion to
the increases noted in earlier months.
In August, for example, considerably
more than 100000 passengers were
carried.
| THE Newark situation" said Mr..
Millhoff, "is fairly indicative of the
amazing influence the automobile has
assumed from the standpoint of COM
mon carrier All of which means more
/ tires.
! "Jitney and bus travel develop one
/ OF the most severe tests inflicted on
tires That is because the cars are
constantly on the go, irrespective of
weather and road conditions. Further
more, the drivers, as a rule, are not
as careful with the tired as individual
owners are. They are so anxious to
keep up with their schedules and to
avoid the chancesof losing a possible
passenger that little attention is paid
TO initiation conditions, etc.
| "The owners of jitney and bus fleets,
however. are perhaps the most exact
| ing and careful tire buyers. among
business men. They know that their
profits depend to a large degree on
their tire economy.
Out in Los Angeles we are equip
ping a fleet of II Packard busses, the
owners of which tested out % lead
ing makes of tires before they decided
on Millers. Each of the cars aver
ages 153 miles daily, close to $4,000
miles year.
1T takes an extraordinary tire to
stand up under such service as this
and consequently we were highly de-
| lighted when we learned that Miller
had won the choice. Millers have given
similarly gratifying results in con-
nection with motor vehicle transpor-
tation in nearly every part of the
country.
THE jitney proves concIusively that
every day the automobile becomes
more firmly intrenched in its position
as one of the country's most essential
methods of transportation. AS it be-
comes more and more of public ne
cessity, the sales volume increases ac-
cordingly and tire production must be
| extended in order to keep pace with
| the demand. Only the most sturdy
and most serviceable tires, however,
are able to withstand the exhaustive
grinds of jitneys and busses."