Mudflaps wire in Canvas?

[David Herbert]

As the canvas will tend to retain water I would be inclined to use stainless wire rope. It isn't visible and will last for ever where as even galvanised rope will start to rust and discolour the canvas eventually.

David

[Guy Verstrepen]

I'm going to try with aluminum wire that I have here, about diameter 6 (maybe a bit too thin)
I go look around at my work if I do not find 8 mm.

[Marc Montgomery]

I had good original remains of mudflaps front (yse there were small front mudflaps that should be there) and rear on my 1944 C60 to reproduce.. I put the exact plans in one of the old Convoy Magazines.

There was no wire.. there was a bit of horsehair padding between the canvas layers, and a metal stiffener stitched in across the bottom. All were thread stitched.

If someone has the old Convoy Mag you'll get a very accurate dimensions and plans to repro the flaps including the stitching pattern.