Details of Goodyear's testing facilities at proving ground near San Angelo, Tex, for testing passenger, truck, farm tractor, and off-the-road tires; particular emphasis is on equipment and testing of earthmover tires; requirements established in developing procedure for heat testing earthmover tires and description of modified 34 LDT test tractor used for testing; test procedure employed, plotting chart of heat rise of each tire as test progresses, making corrections for any ambient change; test continues until level-off tire temperature is reached, or when tire reaches 250 F; test results of several tires.


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    Title :

    Development and testing of earthmover tires


    Additional title:

    SAE -- Paper


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    SAE Meeting ; 1964 Testing



    Publication date :

    1964


    Size :

    10 pages


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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