Ferguson Buggy Company

Four Tires Set for $1.00
     
     The above is a picture of the new Tire Setting Machine in the Ferguson carriage factory. It sets the tire while you wait without either heating or dampening it. It is claimed also, that it does work more satisfactorily than the old process. 
     To reset a Tire by the old process the operations are: Remove tire bolts, remove tire, traverse wheel, traverse tire, upset tire, traverse tire, heat tire, apply tire to wheel, rebore bolt hole, apply bolts, cut-off bolts, paint.
     Better results can be produced by this machine in an operation requiring less than ten minutes time than can be obtained from the above twelve operations. 
     Capactity: The machine will upset a 1 1/2 inch by 1/2 inch steel tire or a 2 inch by 1/2 iron tire or anything smaller and will take in a wheel of any diameter from 30 inches to 60 inches.
     The change in adjustment for wheels of differen diameters is easily made in two minutes.
     A set of wheels can be taken from the vehicle, the tires reset and the wheels put back in place in less than thirty minutes.
     Tires can be set on 600 to 800 new wheels per day by the power machine, requiring not to exceed 3-horse power to operate.

Ferguson Buggy Company
NEW STATE PHONE
DETROIT STREET, ANN ARBOR.