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Tyre safety and the use of cages
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I am prompted to write to you with regard to the letter (CM February 14) referring to tyre safety.
While these cages are in the tyre depots properly secured, ie bolted to the concrete floor, they will be used. Outside the depot, of course, the problem becomes a little more involved. Mr Croft makes a reference to the fact that there is no safety cage used when working on site, or on the motorway, which is partly correct.
I, for one, do not use a safety cage, which being portable, will not in my opinion do much to stop flying rings or flanges, or indeed, complete wheels. By far the safest method, I feel, is to have sufficient air line from the wheel assembly to the pressure gauge so one is out of the way of any flying rings or flanges, or indeed, complete units. But let us not forget that if the wheel I ockri ng and flange are properly seated then the danger must be very minimal. Mr Croft's tyre fitter was not ignorant or careless; he knew what he was doing, and just where the danger existed.
SERVICE MANAGER, (name and address supplied).