A NEW AVON AIR-CUSHION TYRE.
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The range of tyres marketed by the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., • of 343345, .Eusten Road, London, N.W..1, has just been increased by the addition of a new air-cushion tyre. Although there has been a popular and steadily increasing demand-for equipment of this class, particularly for light and speedy transport vehicles and certain types of passenger-carrying unit, the new Avon tyre has not been hurriedly rushed on to the market, for it represents the result of many months' research work and practical tests. Its design is not revolutionary in character, but the tyre possesses features which aim at giving safe and smooth travelling coupled with a large mileage.
The new tyre is of the pressed-on type and can be fitted by hydraulic pressure as easily and readily as the ordinary solid-band pattern, with which it is interchangeable. The sizes in common use are already available and further moulds will be added as occasion arises.
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The air cavity of the tyre is of peculiar shape, but its design gives adequate strength and ensures maximum cushioning effect, whilst the walls. are
reinforced at regulavintervals by radial supporting bars at each side. These factors combine to give a tyre which will satisfactorily withstand the stresses to which such equipment is subjected on modern motor vehicles. The generous depth and width of the wearing tread, which has two grooves, are noteworthy features of a tyre which. is sound in design and construction.
Further details of the new tyre are to be found in a folder which the company have just issued wherein particulars are also given of Avon tyres of other types, amongst which giant cords figure prominently.
Details of the Avon wheel-conversion service, which is of real value to the user contemplating the conversion of his vehicles from solid to pneumatic equipment, or vice versa, or from pneumatics to air cushions, also merit attention. The facilities that the company can offer in this direction are founded on many years' experience.