Re: What tires?

Posted by The Dukester on July 03, 2002 at 15:31:26 from (65.89.19.77):

In Reply to: What tires? posted by ScottyNY on July 03, 2002 at 12:13:32:

It's kinda curious, but as I remember, only Goodyear made 45 degree open center tires until about '50 or '51, then all the major tire makers started making tires very similar to the Goodyears. Firestone made a big deal of their closed center, bent bar lugs and Goodrich made a check mark lookin' bent bar tread. Generals and U. S. Royals were different yet and for a time it seemed like everyone was going for the "Monkey Wards" for replacements when they came out with that cross-bar center lug on their tractor tires. Goodyear was the first too with the plain triple rib front tires that have become the standard and all the others have copied that. (send the check directly to me, Mr. Charlie Goodyear). When the wide base rims came out about '39 or '40 the major tire makers got really into tractor tire design and there were some wild tread patterns. I loved the Wards "knobby" design, they would load up so quick in mud, you had to spin 'em in road gear to try to clean 'em out.

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