tires
Here is the dimensions we took first of my freshly blasted Kelsey wheel from my 41 C30.
Here is why we've been having trouble fittings US tires onto you eight hole CMP 16 inch wheels. The wheel actually measure over 16 inches!
Mike's drawing indirectly refers to this problem.
Notice that the US post-war Jeep's wheels measure under 16 inches. Even my friend's modern pick-up truck 16 inch wheel measured the same as the Jeep wheel.
I called another friend who has a set of new Wallace Wade 900-16 US ND type tires for his WWII WC Dodge sitting in his garage. I asked him to measure the inside diameter over the phone. You guessed it...15 3/4 inches across the bead, the exact measurement we got with Wade's new 10.50-16s!
Gentlemen, I conclude these tires are made to fit US wheels and apparently ( I sumize) will fit the six hole CMP wheel (see the green wheel shown earlier) but not the eight hole 15 CWT or 30 CWT wheel.
To the man from Austtralia...My former C15 arrived from Canada with a set of 16.5 inch tires on the rear.
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