You know, to be honest... when films were made using hand animations, and hand compositing with film to make something like this, it feels like a lot more thought and care go in to the finished product. Most of these old films like this just seem so much better to watch than a lot of the modern stuff of the same type.
And remember all of the equipment and the processes shown were developed without the benefit of computers, it was done on draftsman's drawing boards using pencils and paper and the math was done using slide rules and human BRAINS.
The good old days. This is when bean counters tried to make people think those 13” 2ply/4ply rated tires on your new Falcon Futura weren’t all about giving you less car for more money.
These days the lack of PPE and guards on machinery would have OSHA up in arms. Love the technology where the presenter takes that pencil out of his pocket for each scene
Well, that's a fine How do you do! Pops just bought me four new tubes for the Packard. Boy! if I could get a set of these brand new tubeless jobbers, that'd be swell!
Fun to watch. This is all very accurate I started in Armstrong Tire & Rubber in West Haven, CT on Nov. 30, 1966 everything seen here I have done a little bit of it in different ways in 14+ years, then it closed. This little video does not show the dirty carbon black in the mill room and all of the other chemicals - rubber workers have the highest gut cancers (you never get clean even after an hour in the shower) the 125+ degree heat in the curing room and guys passing out or the mandatory line up at the water cooler to take two salt pills in front of the foremen at the start of your shift. Remember no OSHA in those days, no masks, no safety equipment, no ear protection, no safety glasses. Thank you GOD for OSHA. You have no idea how heavy and tacky rubber is. There is only a few of us left now from those days beaten broken bodies from hard grueling work. Me I got out lucky still in pretty good shape by the grace of GOD. The great HOT showers running over sore bodies kept many a man going day after day. And a little side note I do not know where all of those women came from in the war they made tubes, rafts & parachutes. A few stayed after the war and I mean maybe 3. The government demanded Armstrong start hiring women in the 1970s and this is what happened - crying and quitting even with the guys helping them make their piece work, the work was just that hard, it's not that they did not try. One made it her name was Pearl believe me you would not want to run into her in a dark ally. The money was pretty good but you earned it. Those 1200/24 truck tires I'm not going to forget them for a long time.
Thanks for sharing your work experience to compliment this video I have been binge watching these old films and love them. This channel has many videos from us steel I speak to a man from work that retired from there its great to here from people who have direct insight.
Wow... You're exactly right. I worked for Goodyear for 17 years. That damned carbon black, I'll never forget. You could get a tiny little trace on your fingers, and it would spread everywhere on your body. You couldn't wash the stuff off. In the curing dept. we had around 400 tire curing machines, all reaching a temperature of 350° 24/7. It was brutal work, as the OP related...
@@Jreb1865 Nice to meet you. Wow another oldie rubber worker, never thought anybody would see my comment. Thank you for your thoughts. There were several grades of CB and our #79 was the worst - really fine and loaded with oil believe me there where days when I was covered head to toe with the stuff and the various oils and CBs never come out of your clothes just the sweat and it would clog and stick to the washing machines. We had a CB tower and a railroad siding but we still used a lot of bag black. Literally all of those chemicals used to eat the stitches right off of our safety shoes the tops would be fine and the soles would be falling off. 7 years in that mill room. 400 curing machines, we had about the same the ones in the video we had 4 lines of B,C,D, E they where the oldest and all of the NDs for the military steel molds always went there those where for the Jeeps etc. had post inflation an Armstrong invention that went industry wide essentially doubling a tire layers rounds and because they were old we had to hand load the PI tires right out of the press the bead rim for those swing right off of their sides, after a while your burned hands became insensitive. In the 400 count we had about the same, Im not sure if that counted the truck tire lines everything from 900s to 1100/24s those did 2 cures at a time the 1200/24s was a single. 325/350 lbs. one tire. I did years in that heater room tire layer & bladder repair, green tire sprayer & storage, tow motor driver, racks to the presses. Worked on tires for the Indy 500 (curing) 350+ hot water & steam thats how you cure rubber tires in 350+ tonne presses. our NRMs where the best. Was there when the industry went from Rayon to Nylon to Fiberglass & Steel. All our Banburys where Waterbury Farrell as most of the 90" mills, we had one K7 I think it was made by NRM, 100 tons of raw rubber (Master Batch) a night all cut, picked up and loaded on the conveyor belt by one man I did this on 3/11 shift. Lots of automation now from auto loaders to segregated molds thats because of OSHA thank GOD. For years I was one of six men per shift that did the rescue and recovery work of men caught in machines run over by tow motors, caught in conveyors etc. So many men had at least a damaged or missing digit, it was so common place nobody thought anything of it. There is nothing I haven't done in the making of a tire from the rubber off of the boat all through the mill room into the tire room on to the curing room up to Final finish to QC final inspector off to the warehouse then out the door. 35/30/25 year men dominated the seniority list being one of only 12 men hired in 1966 i got bumped so many times I was beginning to think I was aa ping-pong ball but what an tire education it gave me. Really hope you had a good time in Goodyear at least your lucky your company is still around Armstrong was broken apart by Pirelli Tires and now after all of these years the brand if being revived in India and in a miracle of miracles is saw a trailer on I95 South in 2021going towards NY all decked out flying the logo and the tread designs. I'll check here again Dan, if you want to tell me what you did, where was your plant OH, CA, NY down South is it still operating? All the best:)
my twin brother worked for a tyre retreader in Victoria Australia in the late 1980's, i remember him coming home black from head to toe every day for a couple of years, he was so glad to leave that job.
From around 1940 to 1967, my Uncle Cap in Akron Ohio worked for Mohawk, a company who made tires under a number of different brand names like Western Auto. Uncle Cap built tires with the machines, and they said he was good at it. His wife, my Aunt Helen, was deaf. They had a little beagle dog they called Koko, that hated children and if approached, bit their fingers. I was about 5 and still remember how I screamed and cried. I think I was about 8 or 9, and this high strung lady called on the phone and said, "Your Uncle Cap just dropped dead." Thoughtful way to break the news to a little kid. Cappy chain smoked Lucky Strikes and Tampa cigars
The commercials on Jack Benny Show said Luckies were mild and recommended by all doctors. Your uncle apparently didn't smoke enough of them. Probably didn't smoke while asleep!
Whew! Man, am I sure glad you remembered to include just exactly how significant of a part it was, in which your poor old Aunt Helen with her lack of hearing & their little bloodthirsty, diabolical, digit-devouring dog Koko, actually played into that story you just shared! I'm here to tell you, that long story of yours would NEVER have come together, nor would it had made much sense, if it weren't for those couple of seemingly insignificant, yet HIGHLY CRUCIAL details...so for that I say thank you!! 🙄
@@almostfm I only remember that my dad said that he had to get 17 tires replaced. Could have been separations also. First year for tubeless tires I was told. Trip was from Washington to Michigan.
@@richardjerrybest We had BF Goodrich tires back in the day in the 70's and earlier, but have not seen the brand lately. Is the company still there or been sold?
I have them on all three of my 4 x 4 trucks and have never had a problem. The All Terrain TA is the industry standard that other brands are compared to.
The bigger part of the problem in the US was that the auto manufacturer's did not want to design suspensions to carry the additional unsprung weight and ride/grip of the radial tires. The heavier tires needed stronger suspensions (springs, shocks and mountings) which added to the cost of the automobile. $100 for the suspension and $100 for the tires added a bunch to the $2700 cost of an average car - even more if you were buying a $2000 Falcon or a $1400 VW.
@@lukestrawwalker radials are also no good for farm equipment like tractors and mowers. even most earthmoving equipment and cranes still uses rag tires due to better flexibility. rag tires will still be around for hundreds of years i think
@@UnacceptableViews a lot of guys use radial tires on rear tractor tires or ask the way around on mechanical four wheel drive (MFWD) tractors, they claim they spread the weight better as they run "flatter" and get better traction, but they're more expensive. Other than that yeah agree completely!
The first radials were so terrible about flinging their treads off, O-F-F off in the middle of the road even when fairly new that NASCAR didn’t switch to radials till the mid 80s IIRC and lots of guys who put in lots of miles came to hate the things.
@@alphaomega8373 Done that with modern tyres though, especially those used for low speed and rough terrain, where a tube is preferred over replacing nearly new tyres regularly. Yes tubes are harder to get for passenger car sizes, but common in commercial and trailer use.
7:54 Yes, diagonal tires. Made for cobblestone roads, as they provide a much greater comfort. Driving a car, especially a rear engine one, e.g. Škoda 1000 MB, with diagonal tires on wet asphalt is a challenge.
I don't think i have ever driven a car with bias ply tires. My dad always used to have Peugeot cars, 403, 404 and 304 and as far as i know they always came equiped with Michelin X radial tires. I seem to remember that Michelin was one the first (or maybe THE first?) brand to sell radial tires. They built a top brand reputation off of that.
@@jfv65 I have, maybe if you are performance driving there’s a big difference. Then again I do lots of sim driving these days (mostly BeamNG and Assetto Corsa) and I can’t see a huge difference when driving the vintage cars on vintage rubber other than the fact they tend to be barrier tires.
I'd like to see a video of more modern tire manufacture played directly after this film. I mean, these are bias ply tires and most modern tires are radials.
Not really - I raced an Austin Healey 3000 on them for years back in the 60's. Just had to know how to drive and learn to counter steer. (Turn left to go right) The switch to radials, now that was scary. Especially when we started breaking suspension parts that were never meant for radials.
@@denali9449 I’ve driven on bias plus (definitely not performance driving) and I play a lot of racing sim with vintage cars and I gotta say, I don’t I see the huge deal about bias ply tires.
@@cmbaileytstc Like most things in this world the more you use it, the better you understand it and the better you can work with it. Bias ply tires were never an issue because that was all we knew. I still run them on my Healey. Our problem back then was trying to use a radial on a car built for bias tires, pieces broke and guys got hurt. Once we started building suspensions to carry the unsprung tire weight and to handle the added 'grip' of the radials we were, as they say, 'off to the races'. (Pretty good pun huh?)
Too bad nobody actually makes a crossply tyre any more, except for a few speciality shops who produce them specifically for older vehicles which need them. Expensive to buy, and with a shelf life, but they still sell pretty much all they can make to the car collector market, and to those who own vintage and veteran vehicles who want them to look fully original. Almost universally replaced with the radial tyre these days.
The label for those antiquated tires is "bias-ply." Good riddance. FWIW I spent some time working on one type of bias-cutter, machines about the size of a small house.
I buy nothing but bias ply trailer tires... I tried radials, they're more expensive and they SUCK... no lifetime! You're lucky if you can get five years out of them-- I've got some bias trailer tires that were over 20 years old before they gave out! As for vehicles, yeah radials are better on that score. You can buy reproduction radials that look like the old bias ply tires that came on the car... they're NOT cheap but far superior to the original biases for steering and handling of the car. I had a buddy who restored old cars, including his pride and joy '57 Chevy, and that's the kind of tires he ran on them... OL J R :)
Back in the day when companies made promos about the products they wanted you to buy, not the woke agenda the "powers that be" want you to think you need. Thanks Periscope films!
Heavens! Why would anyone ever have a need for _radial_ tires. You kids and your fancy sports cars with big 15+ inch wheels. What's next, *Steel Belted* radial tires?
That kind of orchestra music was very popular in UK for compositor/musician back in the postwar 1946 and ahead same sound you can found on David Rose - Holiday For Strings (1942), just make some research
Ply style and tube/tubeless are different design factors. My '76 C10 came factory on tubeless Bias ply tires, and I'm sure that there is some odd application that came with tubed radial tires.
(Hint: The secret lies in the direction of the grain patterns & also the age of the tree in which he's attempting to inflat) Shhh, don't tell anyone!! 🤫😉
Hmm, let me guess....so, if that's the case, then I suppose: birr is now spelled byrr? dire is now dyre? fire now fyre? hir/hyr? hire/hyre? ire/yre? liar/lyar? lire/lyre? mire/myre? sire/syre? wire/wyre? & that now vire/vyre? Well now, isn't that just great? That's just frikn' great! I pretty much now feel an OVERWHELMING obligation to track down & locate ALL of my old grade school teachers...line 'em up against a wall & THROW ROCKS at every single one of 'em!! Thanks ALOT, Colin!! 😉😋😝
Always best to buy a recap tire. You can get a great tire and still have enough money left over to take your family out to dinner. In this age of Bidenflation, wise shoppers will buy recaps.
@@denali9449 It seems as if some of our fine RUclips commentators, indeed one “@Denali 94,” and one “almostfm,” and one “@Jacques Braque” are not wise shoppers and perhaps enjoy spending extra dollars.
@@fairfaxcat1312 To each their own. In a former life I saw the reports from single car fatalities which were caused by tire failures and a great many were recaps. And, after just reading the warranty from one of the countries largest recappers, I am not real impressed with their terms. Additionally, they do not make a 'highway' tire for my pickup, all they carry are some heavy lugged 'mud' tires. Not what I want or need for towing the fifth wheel. Like I said, to each their own - if these work out for you, great. Personally I will spend a few hundred dollars over four years to get the tire and peace of mind I want.
He completely forgot to comment about the most important attribute of a tire, the _sweet sweet_ aroma they produce when the *_Proper_* amount of acceleration power is applied. Not to mention their ability to send smoke signals and leave messages on the pavement.
I never get "tired" of these films
Old film but they’re still getting traction out of them…
@@trainnerd3029 You guys just had to retread old ground, didn't you....
They get me all pumped up.
@@timnell207 all of you are biased
ouch.
You know, to be honest... when films were made using hand animations, and hand compositing with film to make something like this, it feels like a lot more thought and care go in to the finished product. Most of these old films like this just seem so much better to watch than a lot of the modern stuff of the same type.
Nobody produced better school and public films, comics, and booklets for tire and rubber education than BF Goodrich. Period.
And remember all of the equipment and the processes shown were developed without the benefit of computers, it was done on draftsman's drawing boards using pencils and paper and the math was done using slide rules and human BRAINS.
The manufacturing equipment is fascinating. I was thinking about this as well. No computers, just human spit balling and drawing boards.
Bravo, i worked in industry before the coming of computer’s.
I think these old informative videos are great!
I saw one worker who still had all his fingers. Must have been his first day! The safety sign out front read "2 Days Without a Employee Accident"
The America that we all miss, the America that worked because there was passion love and quality and most importantly none of them around.
I remember those B.F. Goodrich tires. Their best sellers were the "economy " line called "Maypop"
Mayblow was a little too much they figured, sounds like used tires.
"How about Maypop?"
"Now that fits!"
May pop 60s 60 seconds or 60 feet that's what my folks called them lol
Sounds like Goodyear tires. Worked there for 17 years. Management would have been a good fit at a concentration camp...
The good old days. This is when bean counters tried to make people think those 13” 2ply/4ply rated tires on your new Falcon Futura weren’t all about giving you less car for more money.
I considered those 2ply/4ply rating tires the worst ever.
Thank you
These days the lack of PPE and guards on machinery would have OSHA up in arms. Love the technology where the presenter takes that pencil out of his pocket for each scene
That’s a fantastic presentation.
Hey Moe “I made a tire. Yuk yuk.” I didn’t know Curly made tires too. Good old videos for sure.
My dad got a set 1970...he was so pissed off when a small stick went through the wall !!
Well, that's a fine How do you do! Pops just bought me four new tubes for the Packard. Boy! if I could get a set of these brand new tubeless jobbers, that'd be swell!
My father liked the joke. "How do you fix a tubeless tire? Put a tube in it!"
Fun to watch. This is all very accurate I started in Armstrong Tire & Rubber in West Haven, CT on Nov. 30, 1966 everything seen here I have done a little bit of it in different ways in 14+ years, then it closed. This little video does not show the dirty carbon black in the mill room and all of the other chemicals - rubber workers have the highest gut cancers (you never get clean even after an hour in the shower) the 125+ degree heat in the curing room and guys passing out or the mandatory line up at the water cooler to take two salt pills in front of the foremen at the start of your shift. Remember no OSHA in those days, no masks, no safety equipment, no ear protection, no safety glasses. Thank you GOD for OSHA. You have no idea how heavy and tacky rubber is. There is only a few of us left now from those days beaten broken bodies from hard grueling work. Me I got out lucky still in pretty good shape by the grace of GOD. The great HOT showers running over sore bodies kept many a man going day after day. And a little side note I do not know where all of those women came from in the war they made tubes, rafts & parachutes. A few stayed after the war and I mean maybe 3. The government demanded Armstrong start hiring women in the 1970s and this is what happened - crying and quitting even with the guys helping them make their piece work, the work was just that hard, it's not that they did not try. One made it her name was Pearl believe me you would not want to run into her in a dark ally. The money was pretty good but you earned it. Those 1200/24 truck tires I'm not going to forget them for a long time.
Thanks for sharing your work experience to compliment this video I have been binge watching these old films and love them. This channel has many videos from us steel I speak to a man from work that retired from there its great to here from people who have direct insight.
Wow... You're exactly right. I worked for Goodyear for 17 years. That damned carbon black, I'll never forget. You could get a tiny little trace on your fingers, and it would spread everywhere on your body. You couldn't wash the stuff off.
In the curing dept. we had around 400 tire curing machines, all reaching a temperature of 350° 24/7.
It was brutal work, as the OP related...
@@chris30v Glad you made a penpal These are fun to watch.
@@Jreb1865 Nice to meet you. Wow another oldie rubber worker, never thought anybody would see my comment. Thank you for your thoughts. There were several grades of CB and our #79 was the worst - really fine and loaded with oil believe me there where days when I was covered head to toe with the stuff and the various oils and CBs never come out of your clothes just the sweat and it would clog and stick to the washing machines. We had a CB tower and a railroad siding but we still used a lot of bag black. Literally all of those chemicals used to eat the stitches right off of our safety shoes the tops would be fine and the soles would be falling off. 7 years in that mill room. 400 curing machines, we had about the same the ones in the video we had 4 lines of B,C,D, E they where the oldest and all of the NDs for the military steel molds always went there those where for the Jeeps etc. had post inflation an Armstrong invention that went industry wide essentially doubling a tire layers rounds and because they were old we had to hand load the PI tires right out of the press the bead rim for those swing right off of their sides, after a while your burned hands became insensitive. In the 400 count we had about the same, Im not sure if that counted the truck tire lines everything from 900s to 1100/24s those did 2 cures at a time the 1200/24s was a single. 325/350 lbs. one tire. I did years in that heater room tire layer & bladder repair, green tire sprayer & storage, tow motor driver, racks to the presses. Worked on tires for the Indy 500 (curing)
350+ hot water & steam thats how you cure rubber tires in 350+ tonne presses. our NRMs where the best. Was there when the industry went from Rayon to Nylon to Fiberglass & Steel. All our Banburys where Waterbury Farrell as most of the 90" mills, we had one K7 I think it was made by NRM, 100 tons of raw rubber (Master Batch) a night all cut, picked up and loaded on the conveyor belt by one man I did this on 3/11 shift. Lots of automation now from auto loaders to segregated molds thats because of OSHA thank GOD.
For years I was one of six men per shift that did the rescue and recovery work of men caught in machines run over by tow motors, caught in conveyors etc. So many men had at least a damaged or missing digit, it was so common place nobody thought anything of it. There is nothing I haven't done in the making of a tire from the rubber off of the boat all through the mill room into the tire room on to the curing room up to Final finish to QC final inspector off to the warehouse then out the door. 35/30/25 year men dominated the seniority list being one of only 12 men hired in 1966 i got bumped so many times I was beginning to think I was aa ping-pong ball but what an tire education it gave me.
Really hope you had a good time in Goodyear at least your lucky your company is still around Armstrong was broken apart by Pirelli Tires and now after all of these years the brand if being revived in India and in a miracle of miracles is saw a trailer on I95 South in 2021going towards NY all decked out flying the logo and the tread designs. I'll check here again Dan, if you want to tell me what you did, where was your plant OH, CA, NY down South is it still operating? All the best:)
my twin brother worked for a tyre retreader in Victoria Australia in the late 1980's, i remember him coming home black from head to toe every day for a couple of years, he was so glad to leave that job.
Love these old films.
From around 1940 to 1967, my Uncle Cap in Akron Ohio worked for Mohawk, a company who made tires under a number of different brand names like Western Auto. Uncle Cap built tires with the machines, and they said he was good at it. His wife, my Aunt Helen, was deaf. They had a little beagle dog they called Koko, that hated children and if approached, bit their fingers. I was about 5 and still remember how I screamed and cried. I think I was about 8 or 9, and this high strung lady called on the phone and said, "Your Uncle Cap just dropped dead." Thoughtful way to break the news to a little kid. Cappy chain smoked Lucky Strikes and Tampa cigars
The commercials on Jack Benny Show said Luckies were mild and recommended by all doctors. Your uncle apparently didn't smoke enough of them. Probably didn't smoke while asleep!
Whew! Man, am I sure glad you remembered to include just exactly how significant of a part it was, in which your poor old Aunt Helen with her lack of hearing & their little bloodthirsty, diabolical, digit-devouring dog Koko, actually played into that story you just shared! I'm here to tell you, that long story of yours would NEVER have come together, nor would it had made much sense, if it weren't for those couple of seemingly insignificant, yet HIGHLY CRUCIAL details...so for that I say thank you!! 🙄
@@eddylauterback1312 It was that pack that had one 'Unlucky Stroke'
@@hoosierdaddy4742 You're both working way too hard.
@@hoosierdaddy4742 ......and it all started with tires.
These films are like Army training films.
I have a BFGoodrich silvertown tire that came off SR-71 😁
Very informative
My parents had a ‘55 Chevrolet and came with tubeless tires. 17 blowouts when we went on vacation in 1955.
17 blowouts on one vacation? Were you driving on a road paved with broken glass and nails?
@@almostfm I only remember that my dad said that he had to get 17 tires replaced. Could have been separations also. First year for tubeless tires I was told. Trip was from Washington to Michigan.
@@mopardoctor9966 When we went on vacation my dad had to replace the engine 6 times. What a time that was.
My dad worked for BFG for over 55 years in the lab....he told me that he would not use a BFG tire if you gave it to him for free...lol
Your dad is a drama queen. BFG has literally sold billions of tires.
@@richardjerrybest We had BF Goodrich tires back in the day in the 70's and earlier, but have not seen the brand lately. Is the company still there or been sold?
He's dead....and he was an asshole, but thanks for your kind reply...
I have them on all three of my 4 x 4 trucks and have never had a problem. The All Terrain TA is the industry standard that other brands are compared to.
What was wrong with Goodrich? Was he a Dunlopman, Goodyearman, or what was he?
Unfortunately the tire companies kept making bias ply tires far too long when radial ply tires were known to be safer and better.
Still can't beat a bias tire for trailers.... radials SUCK for trailer tires! OL J R :)
The bigger part of the problem in the US was that the auto manufacturer's did not want to design suspensions to carry the additional unsprung weight and ride/grip of the radial tires. The heavier tires needed stronger suspensions (springs, shocks and mountings) which added to the cost of the automobile. $100 for the suspension and $100 for the tires added a bunch to the $2700 cost of an average car - even more if you were buying a $2000 Falcon or a $1400 VW.
@@lukestrawwalker radials are also no good for farm equipment like tractors and mowers. even most earthmoving equipment and cranes still uses rag tires due to better flexibility. rag tires will still be around for hundreds of years i think
@@UnacceptableViews a lot of guys use radial tires on rear tractor tires or ask the way around on mechanical four wheel drive (MFWD) tractors, they claim they spread the weight better as they run "flatter" and get better traction, but they're more expensive. Other than that yeah agree completely!
The first radials were so terrible about flinging their treads off, O-F-F off in the middle of the road even when fairly new that NASCAR didn’t switch to radials till the mid 80s IIRC and lots of guys who put in lots of miles came to hate the things.
Back in the days when if you happened to have a slow leak in the tire, you could just throw a tube in it.
Glad those days are over. Wife would expect me to do that too.
Can hear her now... its just like a bike tube.
@@alphaomega8373 Done that with modern tyres though, especially those used for low speed and rough terrain, where a tube is preferred over replacing nearly new tyres regularly. Yes tubes are harder to get for passenger car sizes, but common in commercial and trailer use.
When did the little patch strips you poke in get invented? I have good luck with those on small leaks.
been looking for a good one on this topic thanks
Glad it was helpful!
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To this day I don’t see how a tire can go even 100 feet down the road without falling apart
All that rotation and flexing, it's amazing they don't burn up and/or melt off the rims.
7:54 Yes, diagonal tires. Made for cobblestone roads, as they provide a much greater comfort. Driving a car, especially a rear engine one, e.g. Škoda 1000 MB, with diagonal tires on wet asphalt is a challenge.
Along with rear engine VWs, Triumph Heralds etc.
I don't think i have ever driven a car with bias ply tires. My dad always used to have Peugeot cars, 403, 404 and 304 and as far as i know they always came equiped with Michelin X radial tires.
I seem to remember that Michelin was one the first (or maybe THE first?) brand to sell radial tires. They built a top brand reputation off of that.
@@jfv65 I have, maybe if you are performance driving there’s a big difference. Then again I do lots of sim driving these days (mostly BeamNG and Assetto Corsa) and I can’t see a huge difference when driving the vintage cars on vintage rubber other than the fact they tend to be barrier tires.
Nice find, 🙏
I'd like to see a video of more modern tire manufacture played directly after this film. I mean, these are bias ply tires and most modern tires are radials.
Bias ply tires are just scary.
Not really - I raced an Austin Healey 3000 on them for years back in the 60's. Just had to know how to drive and learn to counter steer. (Turn left to go right) The switch to radials, now that was scary. Especially when we started breaking suspension parts that were never meant for radials.
@@denali9449 I’ve driven on bias plus (definitely not performance driving) and I play a lot of racing sim with vintage cars and I gotta say, I don’t I see the huge deal about bias ply tires.
@@cmbaileytstc Like most things in this world the more you use it, the better you understand it and the better you can work with it. Bias ply tires were never an issue because that was all we knew. I still run them on my Healey. Our problem back then was trying to use a radial on a car built for bias tires, pieces broke and guys got hurt. Once we started building suspensions to carry the unsprung tire weight and to handle the added 'grip' of the radials we were, as they say, 'off to the races'. (Pretty good pun huh?)
Too bad nobody actually makes a crossply tyre any more, except for a few speciality shops who produce them specifically for older vehicles which need them. Expensive to buy, and with a shelf life, but they still sell pretty much all they can make to the car collector market, and to those who own vintage and veteran vehicles who want them to look fully original. Almost universally replaced with the radial tyre these days.
The label for those antiquated tires is "bias-ply." Good riddance. FWIW I spent some time working on one type of bias-cutter, machines about the size of a small house.
I buy nothing but bias ply trailer tires... I tried radials, they're more expensive and they SUCK... no lifetime! You're lucky if you can get five years out of them-- I've got some bias trailer tires that were over 20 years old before they gave out!
As for vehicles, yeah radials are better on that score. You can buy reproduction radials that look like the old bias ply tires that came on the car... they're NOT cheap but far superior to the original biases for steering and handling of the car. I had a buddy who restored old cars, including his pride and joy '57 Chevy, and that's the kind of tires he ran on them... OL J R :)
@@lukestrawwalker Gotta guess you drive like an idiot. My experience the exact opposite, over 60+ yrs.
My Dad used to buy recapped tires lol
Same here
didnt say how the valve is fitted, but i still enjoyed it
The valve is in the rim.
@@richardjerrybest Thanks Rick, Iam such a thicky sometimes!
The most important employees in a business like this are lawyers.
Nah! Its the chapy up in the lab, mixing up all sorts of concoctions for the tires they will make.
Love this shit ,just saying!
Love it!!
Whitewalls were the thing.
Back in the day when companies made promos about the products they wanted you to buy, not the woke agenda the "powers that be" want you to think you need. Thanks Periscope films!
Wow! Uploaded in .50p
Was the well fed tire builder making racing tires or other specialty stuff?
I want white walls
Or, 'Why tires aren't cheap'.
Just going round and round, about the same thing.
OK, now radial tires please...LOL
Heavens! Why would anyone ever have a need for _radial_ tires. You kids and your fancy sports cars with big 15+ inch wheels.
What's next, *Steel Belted* radial tires?
To bad thay don't make the white letter t a's any more
White walledTires are not seen fitted to cars these days I think they went out there Sam time has rear fins
Wish I could find the opening music
That kind of orchestra music was very popular in UK for compositor/musician back in the postwar 1946 and ahead same sound you can found on David Rose - Holiday For Strings (1942), just make some research
@@potatosalad5355 that was a good recommendation. This music sounds like progress.
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So this is bias tubeless tire? Not a radial tubeless tire. I thought all tubeless tires are radial one.
Ply style and tube/tubeless are different design factors.
My '76 C10 came factory on tubeless Bias ply tires, and I'm sure that there is some odd application that came with tubed radial tires.
I’m still confused on how a tree fitter can inflat a new tubeless tyre onto a rim.
(Hint: The secret lies in the direction of the grain patterns & also the age of the tree in which he's attempting to inflat) Shhh, don't tell anyone!! 🤫😉
You could add an 'e' and make those 'inflat' tires inflate!
Too bad the tire market is flooded with lesser quality foreign brands like Kumho, Hankook & ZC Rubber.
Tyre
Hmm, let me guess....so, if that's the case, then I suppose:
birr is now spelled byrr?
dire is now dyre?
fire now fyre?
hir/hyr?
hire/hyre?
ire/yre?
liar/lyar?
lire/lyre?
mire/myre?
sire/syre?
wire/wyre?
& that now
vire/vyre?
Well now, isn't that just great? That's just frikn' great!
I pretty much now feel an OVERWHELMING obligation to track down & locate ALL of my old grade school teachers...line 'em up against a wall & THROW ROCKS at every single one of 'em!! Thanks ALOT, Colin!! 😉😋😝
I'm tired just watching this.
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Always best to buy a recap tire. You can get a great tire and still have enough money left over to take your family out to dinner. In this age of Bidenflation, wise shoppers will buy recaps.
Always some blind mud-slingers in the peanut gallery. I'll pass on el-cheapo light-duty recaps, thanks.
@@jacquesblaque7728 OTOH, if enough people like him take his advice, it's going to eliminate a lot of the problems we have in this country.
@@almostfm Agreed, let Darwin do his job.
@@denali9449 It seems as if some of our fine RUclips commentators, indeed one “@Denali 94,” and one “almostfm,” and one “@Jacques Braque” are not wise shoppers and perhaps enjoy spending extra dollars.
@@fairfaxcat1312 To each their own. In a former life I saw the reports from single car fatalities which were caused by tire failures and a great many were recaps. And, after just reading the warranty from one of the countries largest recappers, I am not real impressed with their terms. Additionally, they do not make a 'highway' tire for my pickup, all they carry are some heavy lugged 'mud' tires. Not what I want or need for towing the fifth wheel. Like I said, to each their own - if these work out for you, great. Personally I will spend a few hundred dollars over four years to get the tire and peace of mind I want.
He completely forgot to comment about the most important attribute of a tire, the _sweet sweet_ aroma they produce when the *_Proper_* amount of acceleration power is applied. Not to mention their ability to send smoke signals and leave messages on the pavement.