Green's Detachable Rims.
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The illustration of a detachable rim vhich accompanies these notes shows in invention which should be of increst to all commercial-motor owners vhose " stud" is not large enough to ustify the installation of a tire-press. the owner of one or two buses, vans, )r other rubber-tired vehicles, would ap)reciate the fact of having this type of -im fitted to the wheels of the vehicles
owned by him. The illustration is almost self-explanatory, but the advantages attending the use of this rim are not, at first sight, apparent. The inventor claims that : (I) it is not necessary to remove anything from the wheel, except the rubber tire and its rim; (2) no side flanges are necessary ; (3) an absolute gauge size of rim is not at all essential, as the expanding rim (C) will accommodate itself to any small difference ; (4) it can be fitted to any existing wheel without altering the fellies ; and (5) there is no need to take off the wheel in order to tighten up the rim, when the latter has become somewhat increased in diameter through being " rolled out." We consider that the last claim offers the strongest reason for the adoption of such a rim, as the delay attending the operation of taking off the wheels, sending them to be pressed up, and again re-fitting them, is considerable, especially in the case of the small buses used by hotel proprietors in country districts, miles from the nearest tire-press. Several manufacturers of commercial motors are considering the many claims of this simple device, which we feel sure should give good results on small buses or vans, although we do not feel quite so confident regarding its behaviour on the type of double-deck bus now in public service in the Metropolis and elsewhere. We shall be glad to put motor makers, or users, in communication with the inventor, who is a practical man, with a lengthy experience of heavy motor traffic, and more especially with the public-service passenger vehicles of several important makers_