9.00-13 Tyres

Originally posted by Tony Smith


Imagine the impertinance of some people actually ringing up a business and trying to buy something! Why don't they just leave me alone to enjoy my cup of tea!
You would think that with all the inquiries and interest in Olympic Grasslands that Olympic might actually think about doing another production run, or even passing the moulds over to MRF if they are some sort of subsidiadry or sister company.

Indeed so, it is common that a company has the whizzo IT company do them a flash website and host it cheaply at the outset and then they don't want to continually spend up-dating it, which was the marketing ploy in the first place.

Even with the people calling them, I think our quantities are less than insignificant in their scale of things and I'd expect a "run" would be at least 1000 units or more. I'd guess the profit per tyre is minimal so its either order a lot or negotiate for a short run at a huge price per item.

Broadly, there are probably only 4 or 6 actual tyre makers in the world, the odd names you find are just minor subsidiaries of the common domestic names that they use to make non-mainstream tyres thus reserving the big name for the domestic marketplace.

Olympic are a part of Dunlop and Dunlop is now in Kobe wholly owned by Yokohama, it would be no surprise if Yokohama weren't owned by Firestone or sombody like that.

Simex are Dunlop too and have the T24 Trakgrip moulds, looking at the patterns you could deduce MRF are part of Michelin and perhaps using an earlier version of the XL mould as the pattern is almost identical.

Apart from the insignificant and discountable number of MV people who'd take 4 or 5 9.00 x 13's, who else in the world would want this strange size ? I'm struggling to understand why MRF even made some. It was used on farm trailers and the like here ages ago but not now.

R.