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Original tyre brand.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:42 am
by Marty ULC
Just for curiosity's sake , does anyone know what brand of tyre would have been fitted to the lambrettas leaving the factory in '59?

Re: Original tyre brand.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 11:09 am
by Rich Oswald
Michelin ACS rings a bell, might be wrong though.

Rich'

Re: Original tyre brand.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 12:41 pm
by ULC Soulagent
I’d say Pirelli for the home market and Michelin for the uk market going by the advertising bumf in the old service manuals

Re: Original tyre brand.

PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 8:36 pm
by pacemaker
Pirelli from memory in 1959

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 09, 2020 9:44 pm
by ToBoldlyGo
I think I've seen more Ceat tyres than anything else.

Re: Original tyre brand.

PostPosted: Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:57 pm
by humble
CEAT tyres were certainly used