We recently had a question about a wooden tire. It stumped us at...

[AACA Library]

We recently had a question about a wooden tire. It stumped us at first as we had never seen/heard about one before. We thought maybe it was used as a mold or shape form.

After coming up short in our tire literature I came up on a patent for a 1944 wooden tire.**While it doesn’t look to be the exact matching tire, it certainly does prove that there were wooden prototypes out there to be thought of as a rubber replacement during WWII.*

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[CarlLaFong]

I can see why they never became poplar. They might spruce up the looks of the car, but I wooden care much for the ride quality. Knot for me, I'm afraid

[Dwight Romberger]

Re: We recently had a question about a wooden tire. It stumped us at...

I like your comments John. I wooden't have thought of that.

http://jalopnik.com/396021/wooden-tires-bring-new-meaning-to-term-burnout

Edited June 27, 2014 by Dwight Romberger (see edit history)

[Dwight Romberger]

German Skoda with wooden tires (Ferdinand Porsche) Skoda Radschlepper Ost Porsche Typ 175

Another WWII example of wooden tires mounted on a wheel

Experimental WWII tires made of wood pulp

Edited June 27, 2014 by Dwight Romberger (see edit history)

[Bleach]

I had a few cars with wooden wheels and they were fine. The rest of the car was wood too.

Oh and they were toys....