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A grand looking Atki, just needs a bit of âfinishingâ, a front bumper, a step ring and a half shaft cover. Long ago I got allocated the same model new, 150 Gardner, 6 speed DB, a damn fine machine.
Well spotted sdu. Theyâre not 10.00x20 as would be expected, Iâm going to suggest 40x8 on 24" rims. A few people used them because it made them a bit faster on top speed, but you lost some gradeability. Happy to be proved wrong.
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Indeed it was, if you have a half shaft bust on a slope, as I did with a Foden, you canât leave it on the handbrake while you go for help in the pre mobile era, you just had to sit there with your foot on the footbrake until someone came along.
Whoever thought they were a good idea should have been locked away in an asylum.
I donât reckon 10.00x20 would have been around back then, but they looked too big for 9.00, 8.25 or 7.50x20. Maybe the larger of those sizes were yet to be produced, too.
Those wheels look too big for 20", theyâre not 22.5" because tubeless didnât exist then so thatâs why i think they must be 24." The normal tyre for a tractor or 8 wheeler on 24" rims was 40x8. So I came to that conclusion by a process of elimination rather than certain knowledge. Maybe a very old member, can shed further light.
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@acd1202 Iâve never heard of 40x8x24, obvoiusly the 24" relates to the rim diameter, how are the other numbers deciphered?
I donât think any on road truck here ever had 24" rims.
Thatâs the old imperial way of measuring tyres, they were gone by very early 60s. 40 is 40 inches outer diameter and 8 is 8 inches across the tread. 24 inch rims are also really old but they were a thing, except for one continent which still uses 24.5 inch, being of course, North America, theyâll catch up eventually. Can you believe they still deliver brand new trucks on 11R24.5 and 22.5, it blows my mind.
Just bought a cat ⌠is it a tom? nay lad its out int field
Iâm looking for change to pay the milkman.
Itâs in the tin by the door.
No love, 'tint in 'tin!