A new 9.00-13 military tyre ?
Just seen today in the IMPS (Invicta Military Vehicle Preservation Society) newsletter:
"Vintage Tyre Supplies regularly recieve enquiries for discontinued tyres, sometimes the moulds still exist and have simply fallen out of popularity, when this happens we've often been able to gently coax the manufacturers to re-establish limited production. Recently we have been asked to supply a 9.00-13 military tyre, the last known production was by Olympic tyres several years ago but unfortunately very little seems known as to the whereabouts of the tyre moulds. Therefore, we are now considering the commision of a completely new mould in a pattern yet to be decided, our problem is of course try to asses the level of interest and whether it is worth doing as the minimum quantity is in the region of 250 pieces.
This is where you come in! If you have a vehicle fitted with this tyre size (listed below) I would be very interested to hear from you, at the moment the most popular tread pattern is the Dunlop EST bit I'm aware of other possibilities. If the project goes ahead it is likely the tyre will be marked Waymaster (our in house brand) or simply left blank with only the size marking and manufacturers codes shown.
As far as we are aware the vehicles fitted with this tyre are;
Ford WOA2, WOC1
Humber Snipe saloon and tourer plus heavy utility and FFW radio truck
Morris Commercial PU radio truck
Canadian Ford C11ADF heavy utility
Canadian Ford F8 and Chevrolet C8 wireless truck
40mm Bofors AA gun
I can be contacted at the following address,
Chris Marchant
Vintage Tyre Supplies Ltd.,
National Motor Museum,
Beaulieu,
Hants,
SO42 7ZN
Tel 01590 612261
Fax. 01590 612722
Email chris AT vintagetyres.com "
(substitute @ for AT, as an anti spam)
there would be a good number of members on here that will be interested me thinks.
Richard
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