Highway tread tyres

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by rob love

Re the tires, I read in one of the war diaries at work about the directions to conserve rubber. The early cab11 would have had runflats when made, but these were to be reomoved and replaced with regular tube tires and the runflats only used on the more front line type vehicles (artillery tractor perhaps). They were even to remove one of the two tires on dual equipped truck and run the trucks as singles, again to conserve rubber. The highway tread tires may have been to help conserve rubber, but having driven with the bar tread tires for a lot of years now in this god-foresaken province, I can guarantee they provide better handling in icy conditions.

More photos of CMP trucks with highway tread tyres in the snow in BC, courtesy of Phil Waterman.

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http://canadianmilitarypattern.com/C...20Columbia.htm