Originally Posted by
cyccommute
No. And you probably aren’t old enough to remember them either. They were introduced in the early part of the 20th Century (about 1920). They were pretty much phased out in the 60s.
LOL—I wish! They must have “phased out” out your way, but I grew up in West Australia and we (I) used them well into the mid 70’s. Like I posted—I can still smell them burning. My dad ran a garage so we did a lot of tires.