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I am looking for period photographs or even current photographs of cars with accessory 5 lug demountable wood wheels with the heavy fellows. I would also like any info about these wheels. This has been discussed previously on the old forum, but some more photos and info would be great! Thanks!

I do not have these wheels, but I do have the special Firestone socket wrench shown in the lower left corner in the ad.
It is available.

Ed Archer's #4 speedster has 5 lug Firestone wheels on it. IT should be pretty easy to dig up some pictures of Ed's car.

Ed's number 4 has Perlman wheels. I do not know just how the companies were related. I have read a few things, but cannot remember enough about the details. Perlman were related to Motor Wheel Corporation (my Paige has Motor Wheel wheels on it). Motor Wheel I think may have been somehow connected with Firestone. The wheels, and lugs, are very similar in design. I remember seeing wheels for Model Ts with a third manufacturer's name. But I cannot remember what that name was. As I recall, there was a series of mergers/divestitures between the companies right around 1919/'20. The Jaxon Wheel Company was also connected to Motor Wheel Corporation. Jaxon, best known for the steel disc wheels used on many General Motors automobiles during the '20s, made both wood spoke and steel disc wheels during the late '10s and early '20s.
The after-market demountable wheels made for Fords hit the market by 1912, at least under the Firestone name. There were differences in the details between Firestone, Perlman, and others. The steel felloe bands were different in both major and minor ways. Some had wood felloes exposed both inside and outside the wheel, with just a steel band around the outer felloe between the wood and the rim. Others had a rolled over edge that covered most of the outer surface of the wood felloe. Wheels without the outer steel surface used "U" shaped metal pieces where the lugs bolted onto the wheel. The size and shape of those "U" shaped pieces varied from one series of wheel to another. The width of the felloe is another difference I recall seeing.

Here is Ed's car.