Bandag Tyres

Retreads/remoulds varied so much.

My first job before leaving school managed to sell a small batch of remoulds by Radial Remoulds Walthamstow to a well known tipper operator in Tonbridge, he carried on buying them over the years and they did good service, they used as many Mich casings as they could find.

Years later was issued with a new Daf 2500, in those days all 6 tyres were often the same type and i wasn’t exactly chuffed when my then boss had the 4 drives removed (for use on steers) and had 4 x Kenprest remoulds fitted across the back, had to eat my words because those Kenprests to this very day were the best wet gripping drive tyres i’ve used, the 2500 was lovely handling little motor and with a low bodied tipper trailer could be thrown about with gay abandon, you can never judge a book by its cover.