Appropriate Finish for Wheels

[Mike Costigan]

Replacement spokes were certainly supplied painted: back in the 'sixties when I was raiding village garages for Seven spares, most caches included a few spokes, and from memory they were all painted. Austin publications refer to early cars having stove enamelled wings, but I don't think they were what we now understand as stove enamelled; I think the paint drying was merely accelerated by heat, and I would expect the wheels were similarly treated.