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Media Type: Photographic Prints
Source: Automobile Reference Collection
Notes: Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Mich. "Flat tire Truck" eliminates changing danger. Designed to eliminate the danger of changing tires on crowded highways, the "flat tire truck" was offered to motorists by its inventor, Erwin L. Sutter, 40-year-old machinist. The device measures 30 inches overall and 14 inches in width. It has four iron wheels with solid rubber tires and an all-steel body. The deflated tire is run up no the truck and the auto may be driven to a garage for tire changing at speeds up to 50 miles per hour without injury to the car or the tire. Sutter said that he invented the device because his wife and daughters were always getting flat tires. Mrs. Sutter gets in the car and slowly drives up on the truck. The wheel eases into the cradle and lock automatically. The truck holds the wheel at an even level with the other wheels.