Anyone seen this kind of rim?
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TWrenn
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Anyone seen this kind of rim?
One of our club members brought his '17 Runabout to our lunch cruise. We've seen his wheels before but never paid that much attention to them. Look close at what seems like "dual-felloes"...outside is different from inside the fellow and we've never seen this style.
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Re: Anyone seen this kind of rim?
I have a set of accessory demountable wheels like that on my '14 Touring They don't have a name on them but are similar to Firestones. They have a wood fellow and the flange on the front side of the fellow like those pictured. The lugs on mine are a "wedge" type and even though the lugs don't have a name on them, they do say "30" on the left side and 5 on the right side of the front of the lug.
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Re: Anyone seen this kind of rim?
Very interesting, kind of a hybrid wood/metal felloe. If you find some extra lugs like those at a swap meet or eBay, better snap them up for spares. 
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1924 Cut-off Touring (now a pickup)
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TWrenn
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Re: Anyone seen this kind of rim?
Keith Gumbunger sent me these to post. He has a full set of these wheels too!
3 pics of the lugs and one of a wheel.
3 pics of the lugs and one of a wheel.
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Re: Anyone seen this kind of rim?
They are a "steel-clad" wood felloe demountable rim wheel. I suspect that design was used by a few wheel manufacturing companies in the late 1910s to very early 1920s. There were a lot of cars other than Ford that used such wheels as standard equipment, and they came in a variety of sizes.
Most wood felloe demountable rim wheels were steel clad only on the outer circumference. Firestone and Perlman among others were usually steel clad only on the outer circumference. However some others were usually clad both on the circumference and the outer face of the wood felloe as this one appears to be.
Most wood felloe demountable rim wheels were steel clad only on the outer circumference. Firestone and Perlman among others were usually steel clad only on the outer circumference. However some others were usually clad both on the circumference and the outer face of the wood felloe as this one appears to be.