How to Avoid Accidents (1949)

that will save these young lives or spare them from crippling accidents is worthwhile such a safeguard is the school patrol their big function is to teach caution at Crossings but after all we are dealing with children and remember that every child is the makings of an emergency so we have just an ordinary day ordinary traffic yet any number of these drivers are potential killers here's one of them he doesn't look like a killer does he he isn't driving recklessly no he's just an ordinary driver driving with ordinary Care on ordinary tires when suddenly ahead of him get out of there that's my dog there's a child killed or injured every 3 minutes more than 400 a day one out of every three School AG children who die die in traffic accidents that is why ordinary tires are not enough not long ago we came through a shattering World War and yet Dreadful as that was in peaceful America we kill or injure nearly as many every year on the highway as the total number of Americans killed in both world wars and what causes nine out of 10 automobile accidents skidding not being able to stop the car in time skid causes fatal accident maybe the skid is forward maybe it's to one side good breaks are not enough two women injured as car skids on bridge your brakes stop the wheels but your tires stop your car and when your tires won't [Applause] stop skid proves fatal as two men die five drown as skid throws car into Canal it's no wonder we read things like this every day because every time you go out on tires that are liable to Skid you are within an Arms Reach of disaster if one of those cars skids it's less than an arm's length from a crash that is why you should be sure your tires will grip The Road Not only when the going is dry and firm but when it is wet and slippery don't trust your luck insist on tires you can trust everybody knows a smooth Tire will skid but they don't make smooth tires anymore all tires have non-skid designs one kind or another but some non skids are better than others you're right this is the tire the new general super squeegee the only Tire made with jet CM rubber with the famous squeegee tread a squeegee is the instantaneous effective way to clean and dry a wet slick surface so the general squeegee Tyre fire wipes a clean dry track and Mark this stops quicker than tires with any other tread to see the difference here is an ordinary Tire with a conventional non-skid tread now when is it you need a nonskid most it's when you apply the brake of course okay let's apply the brake to this ordinary tire and see what happens uhoh now that so-called nonskid has been squeezed together until it's practically as smooth as oldtime smooth tires now let's apply the brake on this General super squeegee see that it's the wrinkle action that wipes a clean dry track for a quick straight stop but you want to know how these tires compare an actual service that's what we're about to show you we'll skip the slower speed stops and get right down to the tough ones on a wet and slippery Street at 60 M an hour here comes the first car on ordinary tires the officer drops his arm the driver jams on the brake the tires Clos to a smooth tread you know that helpless hopeless feeling as your car starts to slide under you fortunately there was nothing in its way because at 60 MPH if your car hit something like a bridge abutment or an oncoming car going at the same speed the impact is the same as though you drove your car off a 10 story building now the second car same model same speed same wet and slippery street but this time on General super squeegees and this time there's something in front of it 60 M an hour slam on the brake the general super squeegees go into action and well before you reach the other car your tires have brought you to a safe easy straight line stop let's take the last part of that again I want to be sure you see the way the squeegee tread wipes the water out of the way and gives the flexible rubber ribs a chance to grab and grip the road General super squeegees give you action traction where ordinary tires give you uncertainty this power to stop it's great for the peace of mind you may go a long time and not need it and then without warning the simplest act May suddenly spell accident parked cars sometimes don't stay parked that wouldn't have happened on generals there's a stop sign the other side of that underpass but wow only a scrape bumper that time generals would have been safer when it rains ordinary tires double your hazard but on General super squeegees you can stop in time and in a straight line there are other important things in addition to stop ability you get when you put on a set of General super squeegees very tangible things you get enough more rayon cords per square in in a general to equal two extra pies extra pies that's tangible protection ordinary tires are built with a safety factor of or less General super squeegees are built with a safety factor of 12.8 that's tangible 82% greater safety factor that means 82% greater protection nearly twice as strong as ordinary tires against the jars and bumps you're bound to hit like curve bad chuck holes there's one if you don't think a Chuck hole gives a tire punishment we'll take that again in slow motion we see the way the tire is compressed by the edge of the hole that's what causes blowouts in ordinary tires it isn't the bump that upsets the car it's the blowout generals protect you from blowouts what's more you get a cushion drive and that's tangible too you're getting the same as an extra shock absorber on each wheel and here is yet another very tangible extra ordinary low press tires are sometimes hard to park but when you switch to the new generals you'll find their easy to steer and easy to [Music] park and last but not least those squeegee ribs are extra deep that means more miles of nonskid safety all these are tangibles like the startling new jet CM rubber the greatest single new discovery since the development of pneumatic tires this amazing new kind of rubber resists cracking bruising and cutting it's a terrific new kind of rubber that delivers amazing mileage under the toughest tests ever devised to torture tires so you do get more more miles many more miles with super squeegees and every mile you get greater safety remember ordinary care is not enough ordinary tires are not enough that's the real extra you get safe human mileage human mileage the greatest value that can be built into a tire extra quality that makes the tire last longer and extra safety that makes you last longer too [Music]