ABSTRACT
The Passenger Car Tire Committee of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) developed a Recommended Practice (SAE J918) to provide minimum requirements and ''uniform laboratory test procedures for evaluating certain essential characteristics of new tires intended for use on passenger cars.'' One of the characteristics determined was the ability of the tire to carry safely the load imposed on it by the vehicle, its passengers, and cargo. This chapter on tire testing and other standardization parables by Dr. F. Cecil Brenner is reprinted in part with permission from ASTM Standardization News, Vol. 1, No. 9, 1973, copyright American Society for Testing and Materials, 100 Barr Harbor Drive, West Conshohocken Drive, Philadelphia, P A 19428.
