History of 10.50-16 tyres

[mlombard]

Hi

Thanks for the info, about finding the actual tyres. However I'm still interested in the history of some of these sizes, when did they come in i.e you see the size only listed from 194? onwards, and when did they go out (if they did).

I heard years ago that the US military wanted a specific unique tyre size for the Hummer and one of the reasons was to make it unattractive to those with light fingers as it wouldn't fit anything else, I believe that only lasted a short time before other vehicle manufacturers also used the same tyre size, true or not it would make sense, at least in the short term.

Re 9.00-13 Sand Grip Tyres that are or were a Bridgestone product. So again when and where did this 9.00-13 size come from. What lead the British /Canadians to adopt this size tyre, was it a high flotation tyre used on agricultural impliments before the war?, I've seen photos of Bagnold running around the Libyan desert pre WWII in old Ford Model A's with ballon tyres , but they were not 9.00-13's, from memory.

Its all interesting history.