§ Mr. Russellasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Works, as representing the Lord President of the Council, what prospect there is of decreasing the likelihood of skidding as a 57W result of the research carried out on rubber by the Road Research Laboratory and by Dr. Tabor, of Cambridge.
§ Mr. H. NichollsThis recent research on the elastic properties of rubber offers the prospect of tyres with greater resistance to skidding on wet roads; but certain practical difficulties will have to58W be overcome before such tyres will have a performance in other ways satisfactory enough for general use. A number of tyre manufacturers in this country and abroad are understood to be trying to solve the problem; and it is not possible to forecast how quickly a solution will be found.