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I was cleaning out the shed and came across 3 old rims. Im pretty sure they are british but that is where it ends. I believe they are 13's They are 4 bolt with 3-3/4 bolt pattern. 2 of them measure 3-1/2 between the beads and the other 4-1/2. Some one wrote 307401 on the 2 narrow ones. There are 3 pictures each in my photobucket album. They are not in order but they are numbered 1A 1B 2A and so on . ie 1 being the 1st rim and A being 1st picture of that rim.
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sprites and midgets are 4X4 inch 13 inch rims. They look kind of like early sprite rims.
 
3-3/4 would mark them as being from a spitfire, GT6, or some of the Lotus cars. There may be others as well.
 
The Lotus rims had holes all the way around towards the outside.

- Doug
 
In th' shape of the Lotus badge. Triangular. With th' "point" toward th' hub.
 
'smits took th' camera so I can't post Lotus steel rim shapes.

But that ain't it.
 
I remember a few years back before I got the building there was a TR2 or 2 Maybe a TR3, Some old Austin sedans and a I think a GT6. There was several others before the city came in and cleaned it up. The ole boy who had a business there was a triumph lover but repaired them all.
 
The 3.5" wheels are probably mid-1960s Triumph Herald. Although they would interchange with Spitfire (which also used 3.5" wheels until the 1970 model year), Spitfires usually had wider slots, as did Heralds until maybe 1963 or so. The 4.5" wheel, which I'll assume has "LP875" stamped on one of the "stiffeners between lug holes, would be a Dunlop-made wheel from a pre-1971 GT6 or a 1970-only Spitfire.

Oh, and the "S-in-a-diamond" logo in the picture above signifies that it's a Sankey wheel, the alternate supplier of wheels to Triumph (Dunlop, maker of the aforementioned LP875 among other wheels) being the other supplier.

Hope that helps!
 
Thanks a bunch
I will list the narrow ones as early 70's Triumph and the Wide one as 60's/early 70's Triumph. By the way I had a Harold in the late 70's. It was Blue and ran like a top. I remember taking a corner to fast and the back end would whip around and give you a heart attack but it always seemed to end up going where it was pointed. I also remember the front wheels would turn almost 90 degrees. I cut the wheather stripping so the top would come off. Had no title so I put the plates off my Datsun 1200 on it. Had a single Solex (I think) when I bought it but I put a couple S.U's on it. I cant remember what I got the off of but they were a pretty easy conversion. I worked at an import repair shop and there was a little shed out back full of British engines. Like a Dummy I traded the Harold for a boat
 
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