Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1895 — Pneumatic Tires Not New. [ARTICLE]

Pneumatic Tires Not New.

Most people imagine that pneumatic tires are novelties of recent invention, and yet they were actually used on English roads nearly fifty years ago. We read that “at the Bath and West of England agricultural show, held at Guilford, a couple of carriage wheels were shown, fitted with pneumatic tires. These were made by May & Jacobs, for tlie Duke of Northumberland, forty-seven years ago, but the carriage, proving too heavy for the horse, they were disused. The tires were constructed on almost entirely the same principle as those in use on cycles to-day, an inner air chamber, with stronger outer cover. When punctured they were repaired by the same means as now adopted.