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Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup Tires ad
Image by Thoth, God of Knowledge
EVERY time your car skids there is a double waste — the gasoline consumed in righting it and the developed power of the engine.
It is an engineering fact that the tread of massive Vacuum Cups on every Vacuum Cup Tire, by firmly gripping the pavement, saves gasoline and definitely climinates wasteful skids by utilizing every ounce of a motor’s developed power.
The Vacuum Cup tread is the only tread guaranteed not to skid on wet, slippery pavements.
Vacuum Cups grip the surface at any speed. Each Cup, as it is pressed against the pavement by the car’s weight, is sealed with vacuum suction. This seal is broken only by the forward rolling of the tire gently lifting the Cup edgewise and releasing the vacuum. As a number of Cups always exert a simultaneous grip, there is not a moment you are not immune from the dangers and waste of skidding.
This same principle of releasing the Cups edgewise also prevents loss of power and speed retardation, the gasoline consumption being no greater than with other tires of equal thickness and weight.
Vacuum Cup Tires are sold at approximately the cost of ordinary 3,500 mile tires and at much less than any other make carrying equal mileage surely.
They are guaranteed — per warranty tag — for
6,000 Miles
Makers of Auto Tube "Ton Tested"
PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER COMPANY
Jeannette, Pa.
Direct Factory Branches and Service Agencies
Throughout the United States and Canada
Member Jeannette War Service Union
Pennsylvania
VACUUM CUP
TIRES
How the cups operate to prevent skidding with no resistance to forward speed.
1. Contact
2. Pressure
3. Seal
4. Suction
5. Grip
6. Edge release
7. Disengagement
Ashmanhaugh boar
Image by AJ Mitchell
Iron age.
Norfolk castle museum. England.
The village of Ashmanhaugh provided many neolithic, bronze age and iron age objects and is a parish found just over half way between Norwich and Happisburgh on the coast.
The casting marks are still clear, so it is possible to see that there is a ‘funnel/crescent’ mark on a front shoulder and a semi circular notch on an ear – both intentional details. The small statue is from the last gasps of prehistory – as late as 2117 ybp.
A farmstead might keep pigs behind ditches and fencing, and the boars might sneak many ways of finding the porosity of these boundaries. Loose pigs on heath land need to be returned to their owners, and a twist of a poker mark (or brand) is a way to generate the crescent/funnel symbol seen on the front leg. By the iron age, skills have become specialist and assigned to areas behind walls – away from observation and informal background conversation. This will benefit increases in hierarchies of power. Today we assign a percentage of our earnings to governments, a percentage to specialists who might help you build part of a house, a percentage to someone who can teach your children to drive a car or provide you with tools for this and tools for that. In the iron age, coins were rare and retained a proximity with ornamentation, and, for many, the percentage that was available for a split came from raw production, with clans forming small hamlets that were still closer to self sufficiency than models of surplus and money. Any ‘leaders’ of the emerging hierarchy might content themselves with a pig in exchange for security, festivities and earthwork coordination. Let’s imagine that a man has 5 pigs with his twisting poker brand – of the five, he must offer one to the ‘leadership feast’, and to assure that there are no doubts over the arrangement, a semi circle is cut into the ear. To mark this style of contract into the local tradition, a small statue of a stylized pig is made. The image includes a sense of offering – bending over to give, assimilated by a slight anthropomorphism of the animal’s back legs. The sense of loss that might come from giving up a percentage of a croft’s production is also diminished within the icon, where the normally stocky torso of potential meat and pelt is conveyed as a meager movement towards an exaggerated head – the zone of offal and waste.
How might this ‘tax collector’s’ ID be carried? The Ashmanhaugh boar has a crest added to its back that has multiple perforations. This does not seem to add to meaning and may simply have been an alternative to a ring. A single ring can attach something to a necklace, multiple holes can integrate something into the end of a woven strip of materiel. Much of the ‘crest’ is broken – snapped when prising open in the centuries after its raison d’etre… Originally it was at least four layers of holes high and 21 holes long. This would offer creative holds for interweaves of twines. The back side of the statue might rise with a band of patterned woven material that is long enough to pass behind a person’s head and descend to then attach into the holes towards the front side of the statue. It would not be wrong to speculate that fur was attached to the woven strip for the moment where it passed around the neck, with the weight of the object assuring a warm draft-seal against the elements. Today we might call the object a medallion, although the term may have become simplistic with history.
Many current texts see the boar as fitting for an ‘Iron age warrior’s helmet’ citing evidence of curvature between the trotters.
AJM 12/02/17
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Image by City of Marietta, GA
The Marietta Fire Department conducted additional training the week of March 24, 2014, above and beyond what is required by the State of Georgia in order to ensure the safety of Marietta’s citizens.
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