Word: tubeless
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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...time to try his pet idea-eliminate the tube and use the inflated casing alone. He told his repairman just how he thought it should be done. It worked. Since then, in cahoots with Victor F. Barnett, associate editor of the Tulsa Tribune, he has tirelessly preached his tubeless-tire recipe to everybody who would listen...
When Tulsa car owners, adopting the McGay method, got satisfaction from some 600 tubeless tires the city commissioners followed suit. Now all city-owned cars with drop-center rims are tubeless. Plant cars and trucks at Tulsa's Douglas Aircraft plant are being changed over...
Tire companies look a bit askance at the tubeless idea. They admit that it will work in a pinch, but they warn against its hazards in the event of a blowout-they say it would give the car a far worse wrench than usual...