[EngelsCoachShop] take us through the process, putting rubber on a set of wooden carriage wheels. These wheels would originally have had iron rims, that must have provided a jarring ride on ...

Constructing it required the artisan to first forge-weld multiple smelted iron strips on an anvil, then fit the heated tire over a wooden wheel before allowing it to rapidly cool and shrink to fit.

This tyre rolling machine, manufactured around 1850, bends and rolls out iron strips to be fitted as tyres for wooden wagon wheels. It was acquired by Martin Symes from near Honiton in Devon in ...