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Subject: Re: foo and bar (etc.)
Message-ID: <204@tty3b.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Sep-83 10:42:25 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  1 10:42:25 1983
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Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill
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Smoky Stover a 1930's comic strip?  I remember it, and I'm not that old!
It lasted into the 1960's if I recall correctly.
                                                      ______
Incidentally, someone actually built a working       /      \
version of Smoky Stover's two-wheeled car, for      |        |
use in parades, etc.   The trick was to use          \
radial tires, unmounted, with two rollers inside      |
each one.  The rollers were mounted fore and aft      |       tire support
in the tire, rolling on the inside of the tire.       |      /
The tire must have looked a little flat, but the      +----------
overall effect must have been great.                  |
                                                      |  HHHHHHHHH
I have often wished I had such a car while on         | _LL     \
the Illinois Toll Roads.  (They charge tolls by      / /__ |     bracket
the axle, and it burns me up when a motorcycle      | -|__|- | for rollers
with a trailer has to pay more that a two-axle       \------/ (bears weight
truck. grumble grumble)                                        of vehicle)

        Tom Gloger, Teletype Corporation
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