[Healeys] 100 original tires

[Jean Caron]

Shawn,
I have checked the book put out by Road & Track, about road tests of various models of Austin-Healey and other than references to the tire size 5.90 X15, there is very little about the brand although in the road test of the 100M, they make mention of the Dunlop Road Speed.
Not knowing what countries required from these manufacturers, it is hard to say what tires came with the cars in North America. I know that here in Canada, not sure what year either, the Canadian requirements were that the headlights fitted to car coming from abroad had to be Canadian made, so either cars came with headlights that were sent from Canada to the manufacturers or they came here without headlights and were installed by the dealers. Nowadays it is common that a car sold in a specific country must have a certain percentage of the car that part have to come from the country where they will be sold. As an example, today’s Mini Cooper, when it launched in 2002, BMW listed 119 suppliers of parts, coming from Brazil, USA, Germany, UK, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium and Hungary.

Jean

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From: S and T Miller via Healeys<mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: March 24, 2021 7:15 PM
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Subject: [Healeys] 100 original tires

I have a Dunlop Road speed RS4 (for display purposes only) hanging in my garage. I was curious what originally came on the 100? Some sources state Dunlop road speed. From some light digging I did online it seems a RS2 or RS3 were never made available. Also found that the RS4 could have been used as early as 56' and the RS5 around 59'. The period ads list the RS4 for the 3000 and a few other cars.

So my question is, was there a RS1? Or even just a Road Speed without any further letter/number identification? I almost feel comfortable pointing at the tire and saying "that is the original tire that would have come on my 57' 100-6", but what about the 100. Hmmmmm.  Could be wrong though.

Thanks  all, Shawn

The Millers

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