Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a strip of white rubber which is added to the otherwise black tire sidewall. The strip is molded separately from the other tire components and is added to the unvulcanized tire at the tire curing press. The strip is pressed into a recess in the sidewall forming surface of the upper tire mold half by a carrier ring which swings into the tire press with the green tire loader. The strip of white rubber is then affixed to the tire during molding of the tire.

Abstract: A bias-ply tire having a carcass structure having at least two plies of cord fabric. In at least one ply the cords extend in continuous manner from bead portion to bead portion at an oblique angle relative to the axial direction of the tire. In at least one ply there are two sections of like continuous cord fabric, the cords of which sections are at a substantially equal angle to each other which is oppositely directed relative to the axial direction of the tire. The cords of each section extend from the bead portion near to which each respectively begins into the crown of the tire beyond the circumferential centerline of the tire.