9.00-13 Tyres

[Tony Smith]

See my original post at the lead of this thread! I personally know of 3 top condition 6pdr guns that are let down by poor tyres. One is running 1942 run flats with serious cracks, one has 7.50-10 M274 Mule tyres that are seriously overlaoded and the third is sitting on axle stands. I have heard of other owners/restorers of quite restorable guns who have decided to do nothing until the question of tyres can be resolved.
So what, you say? What's the issue with an occaisional gun here or there? Like Mike said, if we don't find (relatively cheap) sources for tyres for our vehicles now, then we face the prospect of having fine restored vehicles that are unfit/unable to be moved. Its bad enough facing police/insurance/licencing issues that risk keeping us off the road, but to overcome those and then not being able to move because your tyres are FBR- well we might as well give it all up.
I should comment that the following recent production tyres/sizes are all authentic WW2 tread patterns and sizes that are now out of production or hard to find:
9.00-13 Olympic Grasslands
9.00-16 Simex ST24
10.50-16 Coker "Firestone" chevron