[Healeys] 100 original tires

Thu Mar 25 11:59:11 MDT 2021

The attached 1954 Dunlop ad may be of interest.
--Scott Morris; Simcoe, Ontario, Canada - Keep Smiling, Murphy Lives 

    On Wednesday, March 24, 2021, 11:43:16 p.m. EDT, Henry G Leach via Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:  

 I have original Dunlop Road Speed 590 x 15 (H) bias ply tires on my early 100. Purchased from Dunlop dealer at Vintage Tires, Nova Scotia, Canada Five tires $1600, made from the original molds in England. They are tubeless (but use tubes inside), nylon and look period correct but ride like hell. I show the car with these.  I keep the car on tire protectors and have a spare set of wheels and Michelin X 165-15 radials for whenever I am able to safely drive the 100 again. Hank

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From: "Jean Caron via Healeys" 
To: "S and T Miller", "healeys at autox.team.net"
Cc: 
Sent: Wednesday March 24 2021 6:22:31PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100 original tires

Shawn,

I have checked the book put out by Road &Track, about road tests of various models of Austin-Healey andother than references to the tire size 5.90 X15, there is verylittle about the brand although in the road test of the 100M, theymake mention of the Dunlop Road Speed.

Not knowing what countries required from thesemanufacturers, it is hard to say what tires came with the cars inNorth America. I know that here in Canada, not sure what yeareither, the Canadian requirements were that the headlights fittedto car coming from abroad had to be Canadian made, so either carscame with headlights that were sent from Canada to themanufacturers or they came here without headlights and wereinstalled by the dealers. Nowadays it is common that a car sold ina specific country must have a certain percentage of the car thatpart have to come from the country where they will be sold. As anexample, today’s Mini Cooper, when it launched in 2002, BMW listed119 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 viaHealeys
Sent: March 24, 2021 7:15 PM
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: [Healeys] 100 original tires

I have a Dunlop Road speed RS4 (for displaypurposes only) hanging in my garage. I was curious what originallycame on the 100? Some sources state Dunlop road speed. From somelight digging I did online it seems a RS2 or RS3 were never madeavailable. Also found that the RS4 could have been used as early as56' and the RS5 around 59'. The period ads list the RS4 for the3000 and a few other cars. 

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

Thanks  all, Shawn

The Millers

"Always drive them, but remember each drive in an antique car is atest drive."

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