Description
Three color 9 3/4″ x 13 1/2″ ad for Kelly-Springfield Mark Imperial Signed Edition Tires. The ad headline says that “When you build a tire this good, everybody wants some of the credit” and the picture is showing a room filled without about 30 workers smiling and hooping-it-up as two of the men a holding up a tire, “The new Mark Imperial signed edition”. The text says that “From the man who buys the rubber to the man who mounts your tires, everybody at Kelly-Springfield is proud of our new Mark Imperial. It’s our first tire to command its own staff of specially selected craftsmen – Kelly-Springfield Mark Imperial Tire Builders. Each man attests to his work with his personal mark of identification on each tire he builds. No other tire ever had all this…the quality, the construction, the looks…a composite of performance factors we believe makes the Mark Imperial the finest passenger tire we’ve ever built”. This ad goes on with sections such as “119 Tests and Inspections…Plus One”, 4 + 2 Construction, Computer Calculated Tread” and “Modern Styling, Modern Construction”.
Source: June 25, 1971 Life magazine.
