Re: wheels
Dodge Bros. used the same pattern, and same part # Budd wheels, on their one ton and 1.5 tons between 1932 and 1935. Models "K", "KX", and "KF". The latest listing I have for that bolt pattern in a DRW configuration is in Budd's 1944 catalog. That catalog lists the #33469 (20" x 6") as now having an "LB" ring. The #33855 is shown with the "RH". The #33530 (20" x 5") has an "LB" and the #32898 has the "RH". It's amazing to me that the part numbers did not change over that span of years.
It's important to understand that the National Wheel and Rim Association (NWRA) measurement standard at the time quoted the wheel width measurement from rim lip to rim lip across the wheel. The actual width down inside the wheel between the rim lips of a "5 inch" was 3.75". The actual width of a "6 inch" was 4.33". At some point in the late '40s IIRC the NWRA changed the standard to be the actual width measured across the wheel at the inner base.
The only other vehicles to use the 5 lug x 6 7/8" bolt pattern were the 1939 to 1947 Ford tonners in a flat dish car type wheel, and the war era IHCs and Dodge Power Wagons. The Ford wheels were 17", and the military wheels that I'm aware of were 16". Stu
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