The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-09
REQ OFFICIALS LAUDS
 NEW BALLOON TIRES
Points Out Many Advantages New Equipment Gives To Motor Car As Achievement
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"The progress of motoring comfort and satisfaction has been dependent to an extraordinary degree upon the achievements of tire engineers, and the tire engineers latest development. bal loon tires, emphasizes this fact more than any of their previous achievements, revolutionary as they have been." says R. O. Rueschaw, sales manager Of the Rec Motor Car company.
 '9The balloon tire gives the motorist an average mileage per hour not attainahle before with dangerous spurts at racing speed, and truly indescribably great CT degree of comfort and safety on all kinds of roads," says Rueschaw.
 "The balloon tire is not merely a still larger oversize tire. It is a cord tire, of course-but it's design is a radical departure from that of the or dinary oversize tire.
 "The balloon tire-also known as the low pressure air-cushion tire-is larger in section and rounder than the ordinary tire. Its carcass is much more flexible. Its contact with the road is much great CT. Most important, its air is carried at very low pressures-only half, or less than half, that of the usual cord equip mcnt.
 "The first, and outstanding, advan- tage of the car equipped with balloon tires is that you can travel over rough. winding and otherwise troublesome roads without slowing down below nor nal speed, thus greatly increasing mile age per hour without speeding.
 With them you can often average 30 miles per hour all day long without ever having the speedometer read above 35. Balloon tires also furnish an indescrib- ably greater degree of riding comfort.
 "The greater road contact provided by balloon tires promotes safe driving because it lessens the tendency to skid and makes braking action quicker. The cushioning effect of the low pres sure air keeps the chassis delightfully."- silent. Balloon tires lower still more the already remarkably, low maintenance cost of Rec cars.
 Because of their larger section and low-pressure air, balloon tires absorb irregularities in the road from which high pressure tires have to rebound.
 'The result is that in most cases roughness aNl projections in the road are obliterated as far as the occupants of the balloon-tried cars are concerned.
 "If the irregularities are great, they cannot be entirely absorbed but they are 80 toned down and cushioned that there are no short shocks or jolts.
 "So great is this cushioning effect that balloon-tired cars take the ordinary rough road with the same speed as the pavement. They have even been driven over the ties of railroad tracks with little discomfort to the occupants of the car.
 An important resulting advantage is. that the driver of balloon-tired cars does not have to "pick" his way between ruts and stones because he soon finds that it makes very little difference whether he hits or misses them.
 "Balloon-tired cars offer greater trac- tion and braking control to the driver. Because of their large area of contact they greatly diminish the tendency to skid on wet or icy pavements. They in- crease remarkably the stopping power of the brakes. With them it is easy to get out of street car tracks and ruts.
 With them you can drive through sand