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I know he went into the tire biz but I had never seen this bit on a pneumatic Iron tire.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l...amp;dateFilterType=yearRange&index=2

I know this isnt news but its still fun to read. What company paid AW 10,000 for his improvement?

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l...amp;dateFilterType=yearRange&index=2

Thanks for the link Gary, I had found the patent sometime ago and had wondered if they even tried to market it. I had found very little on the Savage Tire Company.
Steel tire

It's good he had sons - here is A.J.'s patent for a belted tire - I think this might be the first belted. This is the patent cited in the Wikipedia as the proof that A. W. Savage invented the redial tire - you can see from the patent drawings that it is not a radial but has bias (woven) side walls, I think someone at sometime wrongly assumed that belted also meant radial (and that there was only one Arthur Savage).
A. J. Savage belted tire

Thanks for the pat drawing link Gene. For the life of me I couldnt picture what they where describing in the story.

Gene, I just found this news paper archive but here is a search for "savage tire" that turns out more ads from the company than Ive seen before.

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/s...ce=5&rows=20&searchType=advanced

"Heap Big Mileage" I love it

good ride on gravel ,,,,,but on concreat or asphalt ,chatter chatter