Word: tractional
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...other cars were not difficult enough, the hapless motor ist is driven to distraction by a sea of signs that tell him where to go and what to do. Ford Motor Co. has come up with an experimental device aimed at taking the dis out of the traction...
...traction, I'm a-ridin...
...woefully underequipped. Some 4,000 Russian T-34 tanks are still operating, but though that machine was first-rank armor during the Korean War, it is now obsolete. Still, armor would be of little use to any army fighting in Southeast Asia, an area about as conducive to good traction as a rumpled rug on a waxed floor...
Originally a Canadian innovation (the Mounties use them to track their man), the machine grips all kinds of snow with a tanklike traction belt of metal cleats. Outboard Marine Corp., maker of Evinrude and Johnson motors, produced two new U.S. models priced at $895, and found it had started something of a fad. The number of snowmobiles sold nationally jumped to 10,300 this year, double last year's sales...
Metallic inserts in tires are not brandnew. In the early days of the automobile, motorists sometimes fastened metal nuts to the tread, producing tires that gave good traction but ripped up highways and brought on many of the early anti-metallic-tire laws. Several years ago, metallic stud tires were developed in Sweden; they have since come into widespread use in Scandinavian countries, where they constitute as much as a quarter of all tire sales...