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I have long wondered how rubber tires were installed on the wheels of horse-drawn equipment. This little video from the Engles Coach Shop provides a good lesson on the procedure.

Rubber Tires on Carriage, Wagon Wheels | Wheelwright Trade

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sldK65_HUgc&t=2s

Wow. Very interesting, And not at all as I might have guessed. So, they're "steel belted circumferencials".

Sandy

Try saying that three times real fast! LOL!

Amazing. And I think he said he built the machine he uses to fit everything together. That took some doing for sure.

I caught that. He must be a Hell of a backyard engineer because the machine seemed to work very well. I love it when something works right.

Dave Engel does nice work check out of his "po-dunk shop" at https://engelscoachshop.com/
His rubber tire setting machine has it origins back to the 1890s. My friend had one too from that era that I had tires reset with. What was aggravating was to have only one wire break and hope you could roll along to the end of your journey.
The key to a good wheel though was having a tight iron tire with the right amount of dish.
The worst sound on a spoke tire I've heard was at the Santa Barbara Polo Grounds where for a fund raiser they brought in one of original Rolls Royces from England. The driver sped across the Polo field making big swooping turns. With every turn of the wheels you heard crack, crack, crack as the spokes were loose in the hubs.
Cheers,
Steve Haupt

Here is the European way of setting rubber tires on carriage wheels. The tire (metal part) has a lip curling on each edge that the tire is pressed into.
https://www.facebook.com/hippomobiel/vi ... DExNTQ5MA/
Cheers,
Steve Haupt

An excellent website of the Whitbread Shires describes there activity from WW2.http://whitbreadshires.moonfruit.com/#
The author I met at the stables in London in 1987 and struck me as a great horseman.
https://www.facebook.com/colin.lavender ... 2610508743 While more a contemporary film it was still the way The Whitbread Brewery Shires worked in WW1 and 2.The only problem is none returned after WW1.