A Rover tyre tester: date?
 

And the little goodie of the month: a Rover tyre tester with dual graduation (KGS / LBS).
But I bet it's older than the 75/ZT, possibly made earlier for SD1, P6, P5?
Has anybody any clue?
I must add that it doesn't look working: every tyre I can test, it reaches the max at once!
Just as a souvenir...


https://www.mg-rover.org/cdn-cgi/ima...-2-jpg.136518/

I can well imagine that it was from the tool tray in a P4.

I have two or three of this type of gauge, and think that one of them is engraved Dunlop.

Mike

Yes, I've just googled P4 tool kit photos, and it is in them.

Could of course also be older.

Is it this one?
The tyre tester looks the one at the bottom, but not exactly the same as mine, as far as I can see...



https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/MAIAA...Yd/s-l1600.jpg


At the second sight, it looks like a kind of cap is missing at the right end of mine, which could explain why it goes at once at the max, the weight of that cap may just equilibrate and play as a counter-weight.


N.B. Sorry for the width of the page but I can't manage...

Yes, that looks like one of the photos that I found.

The missing part is almost certainly a valve key, for replacing a faulty tyre valve (not uncommon, in those days)

There was a fibre type washer at the inner end of the valve. A spring loaded brass tube was meant to push against it, but after time it left a groove in the washer - and leaked air pressure.

Mike

P4's 5's & 6's all came with these in the tool kit.

I think it is from a P4, as the Rover Viking logo is like the ones used on these cars.
The P5 and certainly the P6 were quite different.

Here is a P4 hubcap badge that has a similar logo:-

https://live.staticflickr.com/4258/3...f8d56d31_w.jpg

But, I might be wrong! :getmecoat:

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Many thanks to you all for those very learned pieces of information. :bowdown:

The tyre gauge was standard in the tool kits of all Rover products including Land Rovers in the 1960's & early 1970's .