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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1920
Page
5
J F Lynch Kissel Motor Car company sales director argues life and economy depend on rapid road construction. He says higher building costs are worth it to lower transport costs and improve distribution, noting a nation’s production must have an outlet in line with its size.
The article explains that cotton is a primary material in tire construction. It notes multiple cotton fabric plies form the tire body and resist air pressure, with rubber serving as a buffer, and it says about 4 percent of 1920 cotton output will go to pneumatic tires, totaling around 400,000 bales.
The cotton industry appears central to the tire boom as 1,500,000 pounds mount the output feeding roughly 7,009,000 cars. On average four pounds of cotton enter each pneumatic tire, though most tires use about three pounds. Cotton sources include Egypt and Peru with about 250 tire firms in the U.S. Woolen mills’ capacity is viewed as the main constraint to expanding tire production.
Spokane County will spend 700000 on road upgrades before the 1920 touring season ends. H J Doolittle, in charge of highway construction, notes 80000 of the total will fund inner city graded streets including Stafford's addition and Wright road work. Bids will be called for Stafford's addition work soon with paving planned from the hilltop to the bridge and grading to the city limits.
Stella Buckwalter argues that a skilled knitter can learn easy mechanical methods and applies her theory by detailing how she maintains her own car in the March issue of Motor, illustrated with photographs of her performing the tasks.
New York announces 18 international aviation contests with prizes totaling over 1.5 million dollars. Open to American airmen holding FAA certificates, events span from New York to Paris, Monaco, Alaska, India, Cuba, Antwerp, and beyond.
Federal tire dealer C. A. Dudley of Butte warns that spinning wheels in ruts and riding in street car tracks causes rapid tire wear. Ruts injure sidewalls, tracks spit steel splinters that pierce casings, leading to cuts and mileage loss. Best to avoid tracks and ruts, use center of tracks and drive slowly when unavoidable.
The March Motor issue highlights how motor vehicles have extended into railway work. Gasoline driven hand cars replace manual propulsion, enabling locomotion in some services and reviving profitable branch lines that had been unprofitable.
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