Motoring Magazine and Motor Life, 1913, and available online to read at your leisure

  I enjoy reflecting on the cars of 100 years ago, it's amazing that they were all simple enough for a gearhead like me to work on, repair, or improve on.  What do you make of the above tire covers? A primitive retread? And that company name, Leather Tire Goods... what leather tire goods did they make? I think I've pointed out several times that roads were so bad that tires were lucky to last a

Vim tires don't slip

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Draper the tire salemans Dodge, with Trublpruf solid rubber cross drilled tires, never will go flat

Below photo is from the front window display of his business http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/01/trublpruf-tires-by-lambert.htmlhttp://www.shorpy.com/node/9969Tires were flat so often, that this solution was considered a great idea, and cars didn't driver very fast, since roads were in such terrible condition, and there were very few miles of paved road in the entire country of the US

TIRES

BF Goodrich tires	Bridgestone	Continental tires
Cooper Tires	Dunlop tires	Falken tires
General Tires	Goodyear	Hankook tires
Kumho	Maxxis Tires	Michelin tires
Mickey Thompson Tires	Nankang Tyres	Nexen Tires
Nitto	Pirelli	Pro Comp Tires
Riken Tires	Sumitomo Tires	Super Swamper Tires
Toyo tires	Ventus	Vogue Tyres
Wynstar Tires