Daimler - Edwardian & Vintage
Daimler was one of the first car manufacturers in England, and once their motor cars started using pneumatic tyres, these were of course all of the beaded edge / clincher type. Daimler, like other motor car manufacturers, carried on using beaded edge tyres on their cars into the middle of the 1920's. Listed below are some of the beaded edge tyre sizes the Daimler company were using. If you require any advice on anything Daimler and tyre related, feel free to get in touch. The Blockley beaded edge tyre range came about because we wanted the best quality product, after a lot of research and prototypes we produced. We have also manufactured a full range of Blockley Superior inner tubes to compliment them, which you can see full details of at the links below.
We list a number of Daimler models below from this period, giving a flavour of the huge number of vehicle models they made, with the tyre sizes they were specified with originally, although many would have been changed in the ensuing years as these tyre sizes became difficult to obtain and so on (for which Blockley will have produced the alternatives). Around 1909 Daimler adopted the sleeve valve engine design, to Knight patents, and continued with this design philosophy to the early 1930's.
- Daimler 45hp. 150x150mm tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 28hp. 120x150mm, tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 30hp. 130x150mm, tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 30hp. 110x130, tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 36hp. 110x150, tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 38hp. 124x130mm, tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 42hp. 130x150mm. tyre size 895x135
- Daimler 22hp. 96x130mm, tyre size 875x105
- Daimler 56hp. 124x130 (6 cylinder), tyre size 920x120
- Daimler 25hp. 101x130, tyre size 920x120
- Daimler 23hp. 80x130 (6 cylinder), tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 20hp. 90x130, tyre size 815x105
- Daimler 30hp. 90x130 (6 cylinder), tyre size 920x120
- Daimler 26hp. 102x140mm , tyre size 920x120
- Daimler 30hp. 110x130mm, tyre size 895x135
- Daimler 45hp. 110x130 (6 cylinder) , tyre size 895x135
Into the 1920's we have:
- Daimler 30hp. 90x130mm , tyre size 895x135
- Daimler 45hp. 110x130mm, tyre size 895x135
- Daimler 20hp. 90x130mm, tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 12hp. 59x94mm (6 cylinder), tyre size 765x106 (see Blockley 760x90 description at link below)
- -Daimler 16hp. 66.5x104mm (6 cylinder), tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 21hp. 75x114mm, tyre size 820x120
- Daimler 16/66. (Also called Daimler 16), tyre size 765x106 (see Blockley 760x90 description at link below)
- Daimler 20/70. (Also called Daimler 20). 73.5x104mm (6 cylinder) tyre size 880x120
- Daimler 25/85. (Also called Daimler 25). 81.5x130mm (6 cylinder) tyre size 820x120
- Daimler 35/120. Also called Daimler 35) 97x130mm (6 cylinder) tyre size 880x120
After which the Daimlers started adopting straight sided, and what we now consider more conventional wheel rims.
