Luftwaffe Tires

[Ed Russell]

This is way too abstruse for a Brtimodeller discussion on tyres but the best source of general information about this is the Wiki entries for Esso and Amoco.

It's complicated by the many entities trading as "Standard Oil" after 1911. The American Oil Company was taken over by Standard Oil (Indiana)  in 1931 which became Amoco in 1985 (and merged with BP in 1998).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoco

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esso

[fightersweep]

We had a tyre from a Do-17Z in the museum I volunteered at many years ago. If I recall correctly, recovered during a dig in the 1970s. That was a Dunlop produced tyre, but the thing I found interesting about it, was that it said "Made in Germany" underneath the Dunlop script in English.

 

Steve

[Adam Poultney]

Now this is an interesting thread

[Rob G]

27 minutes ago, Adam Poultney said:

Now this is an interesting thread

 

Don't pull it, things might unravel.

 

[JohnT]

On 23/08/2019 at 18:23, Graham Boak said:

Plus both British and US salvaged destroyers. 

Graham

reading your post again brought to mind HMS Audacity that was converted from the former German merchant ship Hannover captured in 1940 and used as a small carrier by the RN

 

perhaps not quite the same as a company having a subsidiary company and both factories producing materiel for opposite sides. 

 

I am, as always, deeply impressed by the depth and breadth of knowledge of the BM fraternity though.

[Graham Boak]

I've just been baffled by my own quote, but it makes more sense in context.  I perhaps should have written "salvaged US and British destroyers".

 

[JohnT]

Half the time when I read my own handwriting a day later I am not just baffled but totally confused