For no particular reason (except to dispel the rumour that CMP wheel rims were cast!), I thought I'd share these detail pics of some rims I recently cleaned up.
I have a couple of rims in 16 inch and 20 inch by both General Motors and Kelsey, and noticed that while generally similar, they bore differences. Oddly, I've only ever seen dates of 1940, 41 and 42.
Kelsey stamped the outer half of their rims.....
...While General Motors stamped both the inner and outer halves:
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