Wanted: tires; 11:00-16

[Bob Phillips]

Hi All: I have found a US source of NOS 1100x16 tires. They are not cheap, but my interest was to get as large a diameter 16 inch tire as I could in order to pick up the road speed a bit. The use of a 16.5 inch tire sounds interesting but...I always thought one of the issues with 16cmp rims/tires was the style of bead. It is essentially square in profile like a 20 inch tire. The US military 16 inch tires were like this although they had a 5 degree bead where it slipped over the rim so it helped to turn a 16th of an inch off the rims to smooth them and allow the tapered ( for want of a better word) bead. So what about the 16.5 inch wheels? Do they have a straight/square bead profile like a 20 inch tire or a tapered bead like a modern truck tire? Anybody know??...BP