Road wheels More sub catagories: Rims

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From the start of 100-Six production, disc wheels were the standard fitting and wire wheels an optional extra. However, there is little doubt that the great majority of cars, particularly in later years, had wire wheels; in fact these were fitted as standard to North American export cars of the Mark III model. But the choice of wheels remained open at least to home market buyers until the end of production.

Both disc and wire wheels were originally size 4Jx15. The disc wheels were made by Rubery Owen and had five-stud fixing. They featured eight ventilation holes paired two and two. They were fitted as standard with a chrome-plated hub cap embossed with Austin's Flying 'A' logo. These wheels and hub caps were similar to those found on the Westminster saloon models of the fifties. On the 3000 models, you could theoretically specify Ace Mercury full-width wheel trims as an extra, although it is doubtful that many people ever did.

The wire wheels were supplied by Dunlop, and originally had 48 spokes similar to the 100 wheels. From chassis number 24367 in June 1963, towards the end of the 3000 Mark II Convertible production run, stronger 60-spoke wheels were fitted, size 4.5Jx15. Knock-on hub nuts were fitted, but it became necessary to supply octagonal hub nuts on export cars to Germany and Switzerland from 1958 onwards (possibly first fitted to BN6/2878 in August 1958). Much later, in 1966, octagonal hub nuts were also fitted to some cars to certain North American destinations. The hub threads were coarser from chassis 26705 (Mark III Phase II model).

Both disc and wire wheels were always finished in silver; the exact paint reference was BMC's Aluminium, code number AL.1.

On a 100-Six with disc wheels, tubeless tyres size 5.90-15 were fitted as standard equipment, but on a car with either wire wheels or overdrive (or both) Dunlop Road Speed tyres (RS4) with inner tubes were fitted, and these could also be specified on their own.

On the 3000 model, Road Speed tyres were fitted as standard, and from June 1960 onwards the RS4 type was replaced by the RS5 (from chassis numbers BT7/10299 and BN7/10309). Whitewall tyres were offered as an optional extra, at least on the Mark II Convertible and Mark III, but possibly also on earlier cars. They were quite common on cars exported to North America. Radial tyres, Dunlop SP.41 size 165HR-15, were another option on the Convertible models, but were primarily found on cars exported to France. Very many cars are now fitted with radial tyres.