. Automotive industries . Jan. 6 relating to lack of means forapplying anti-skid chains to cast steel disk wheels, ourattention has been called to the fact that the Clark Equip-ment Co., who manufacture wheels of this type, have longbeen providing such first steel disk wheelsmanufactured by the con-cern were for the NashQuad. This was a singledisk wheel, and 1-in. holeswere drilled through theweb of the wheel throughwhich fastening means forthe chain could be are several methodsof fastening the chainswhen the wheel webs arethus drilled. The simplestmethod consists in the
. Automotive industries . Jan. 6 relating to lack of means forapplying anti-skid chains to cast steel disk wheels, ourattention has been called to the fact that the Clark Equip-ment Co., who manufacture wheels of this type, have longbeen providing such first steel disk wheelsmanufactured by the con-cern were for the NashQuad. This was a singledisk wheel, and 1-in. holeswere drilled through theweb of the wheel throughwhich fastening means forthe chain could be are several methodsof fastening the chainswhen the wheel webs arethus drilled. The simplestmethod consists in the useof a bolt and nut. Oneend of the chain is thenthreaded over the bolt, thebolt is passed through thehole and the other end ofthe chain, and the nut puton. Nash and other manu-facturers, however, use aspecial fastening. The boltand nut method of fasten-ing the non-skid chains is probably the quickest in oper-ation. On the larger double disk wheels of the Clark Equip-ment Co. with old style box section rim, the rims were. drilled from the end. Several types of clamp have beendesigned by the Clark company and hooks are also used inconnection with these wheels, the Titan Motor Truck Co.,for instance, having designed a hook bolted to the rim ofthe wheel which it uses on its trucks. On a White truckused by the Clark companythe clamps are bolted to theunder side of the rim. This box-rim type ofwheel is now obsolete, how-ever, having been super-seded by the French typeof rim. All wheels of thistype made by the Clarkcompany are cast withbosses on both sides of theweb, through which holesare drilled. This permitsof the application of anytype of hook the manufac-turer may desire. Somedesigns of wheels made bythe Clark Equipment the hooks used areherewith illustrated. Methods of attaching anti-skid chains to cast steel disk wheels The Engineering Sub-committee of the EmpireMotor Fuels Committee,under the chairmanship ofDr. W. R. Ormandy, is conducting tests and experimentson the
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