Andy,
Thanks for the correction. I can't really recall whether tubeless tires
were available in the early 60's. I was under the impression that they
weren't. I'll stay with my tubes though, since the tubeless tires I have
on the car definitely lost air without them. It may have been due to the
fact that the rims were a little rough. Remember -- belt, suspenders, and
rope. Redundancy is the watchword. One less thing to worry about failing.
Sumner Weisman
62 TR-3B
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> From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
> To: JAMES_S_WALLACE@HP-Canada-om1.om.hp.com
> Cc: sweisman@gis.net; triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Tubes?
> Date: Tuesday, June 16, 1998 10:09 AM
>
> Sumner wrote:
> >
> > "Those 1963 rims were never made for tubeless tires -- they used tubes
> > in those days....
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 JAMES_S_WALLACE@HP-Canada-om1.om.hp.com wrote:
>
> > ...What's different about these rims?...I really thought the world had
> > moved to tubeless already; am I in error about this?
>
> Tubeless tires indeed were quite common (perhaps nearly universal, but
I'm
> really not sure) by the early 1960s, at least on "solid" steel wheels.
> Wire wheels are another story, of course. Going back as far as Dad's
> new 1959 Triumph 10 sedan, all the Triumphs in the family over the
> years have been on tubeless tires. The only exceptions have been some
> tube-type Michelin X tires that I salvaged from a wire-wheeled TR4 and
put
> on the Mayflower (tubes and all, but NOT the wire wheels :-) ), and I've
> also used tubes in some racing tires on alloy wheels on the "RaceSpit 4".
>
> If I recall my tire history, tubeless tires and "safety" rim wheels were
> largely a post-World War II innovation.
>
> --Andy
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