Some tyres have short lives!

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Timber, tyres and steel all were rationed. Tyres - some had short lives. Hubert Battands (Scoriton) Bedford was allocated 825 - 20 Michelins cost £6 for his cattle truck, fitted in the morning of the Wednesday Newton Abbot market run. On leaving that afternoon someone had left the security gates' steel flap up and that tyre was no more!
Because of the shortage of tyres a new word entered the English language - Remoulds.

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