1945 B.F. Goodrich Tires, Akron, Ohio - Vintage Ad

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1945 B.F. Goodrich Tires, Akron, Ohio - Vintage Ad
Original, vintage magazine advertisement.
Page Size: Approx. 10 1/2" x 13 1/2" (27 cm x 34 cm)
Condition: Good
Tire explodes at 635...
OUR PHOTOGRAPHER waited hours to
take this picture of a tire exploding.
As a needle-like stream of water was
forced into it, the internal pressure went
up ... to twice as much as the tire
would normally need to take . . . three
times . . . five times ... six times . . .
Suddenly, at a pressure of 635 pounds,
it exploded! The picture our photogra-
pher had awaited so patiently turned
out to be mostly a geyser of.water. But
the smaller picture shows what hap-
pened. The bead and sidewalls, the parts
most likely to fail, held until the tre-
mendous pressure tore through the
crown of the tire.
Such things shouldn't be done to
tires except in test. This tire needed an
extra safety factor for a special purpose.
But pushing tires beyond endurance,
and doing it scientifically, is one meth-
od of B. F. Goodrich development. We
call it testing for tomorrow. Ordinary
passenger car tires are driven at 100 miles
an hour, because they may someday
have to operate safely at such speeds.
Airplane tires are tested at greatly
multiplied pressures, because tomor-
row’s planes may require it. Nobody
knows how driving and flying condi-
tions may change in the years ahead.
But B. F. Goodrich expects to have
tires that meet the conditions—no mat-
ter what they are!
Looking ahead—testing for tomor-
row-enabled B. F. Goodrich to get
three years’ extra experience with syn-
thetic rubber in tires. By the time other
companies started selling them, B. F.
Goodrich tires containing synthetic rub-
ber had already totaled more than 80,-
000,000 miles of actual road wear. The
B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio.
BE Goodrich
FIRST IN RUBBER
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