Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1917 — SPRING WHEELS WILL NOT DO. [ARTICLE]

SPRING WHEELS WILL NOT DO.

After something like one thousand patents have been granted for a substitute for the pneumatic tire, efforts are still being made to solve the problem. Far be it from <uts to try to discourage the ingenious, but the main difficulty is that they are working upon a falefe basis. The inventor of a substitute for

the pneumatic tire should first find something that, is as light as air, as durable as air. as cheap as air, and as resilient as air. No spring ever made possesses a single one of these qualities. Springs are not permanently durable, they hare weight, they cost money, and they absorb Shock at the hub of the wheel and not at its periphery, which is a decided disadvantage.— Automobile Dealer and Repairer.