41. The original Skylark was long, low, gleaming and powerful with chrome wire wheels and a high-compression V8. 42. Chromium-plated wire wheels were optional from 1953. 43. When leaving the factory it originally fitted 5.50 ?18 Dunlop tyres on 18 inch wire wheels . 44. A salmon-and-cream interior and cloisonne hubcaps from a 1948 Custom Eight topped off the chrome wire wheels . 45. Wire wheels also appeared on the 750.46. At the end of World War I, the company lost its contracts, switching production to wire wheels . 47. The first commercial motorcycles were built like bicycles, with wire wheels as bicycles had traditionally been built with. 48. There's a 1994 Jaguar XJS convertible that has 24-karat gold plate trim down to its wire wheel spokes. 49. This debacle of the decade was offset by rousing success in producing wheel spokes for automobile wire wheels . 50. The redesign also saw the introduction of new wire wheels that became a standard wheel treatment until the 1940s.
