Wards tire?

davediehl@hotmail.com · Mar 22, 2012

I never heard of a 'Wards Riverside' tractor tire until today. In my fathers shed is a 11x28 original 4 ply tire with 80-90% tread on a rusty rim. Anyone heard of the 'Riverside' part? I've heard of Wards tires, just not this one. It looks like the current day R series tread.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 22, 2012

Dave I have a pair on the back of my 1937 F-20. Mine are 28" rims but they are wider than 11" they have heavy bar lugs like you find on a front end loader..I have had the tractor for 40 years and the tires were on it when I bought it. The tractor has been stored inside and I am about done with going through it again.

BCnT · Mar 22, 2012

yeah,we had wards riverside tires on a few cars and trucks too...they were about as popular as allstate tires at one time.

Mike (WA) · Mar 23, 2012

Yep, Sears and Wards sold all kinds of stuff in competition with each other, and I don't think they made any of it themselves- but had their brand name put on the merchandise others manufactured for them. Sears tires were Allstate, Wards were Riverside; Sears appliances were Kenmore, Wards (I think) were Signature. Sears .22 rifles were J. C. Higgins (who was he, anyhow? Think I'll google it), Wards were Hawthorne. I've got a Hawthorne .22- its actually a Mossberg, but it took a bit of research to figure that out.

Sears even rebadged Henry J automobiles they got from Kaiser in the early '50's with the Allstate name.

The Wards brand names are less remembered, of course, because Wards has been out of business for a number of years, and Sears is still around.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2012

I have a pair like d beatty's on my 1936 Allis Chalmers WC, but they are on 24" rims. Just bought the tractor last July, tho'.....

BhB · Mar 23, 2012

I have 4 Wards Riverside tires on my Model T Ford.

El Toro · Mar 23, 2012

Here's the Farmall A that I restored in 1975-1976. It has Ward's Riverside tires on the rear and Sears Allstate on the front. Both were ordered from their local catalog store. The Ward's tires were made by Firestone. Hal

El Toro · Mar 23, 2012

I forgot to mention that my Wards tractor still has the Riverside tires on it. Hal

Bret4207 · Mar 23, 2012

Wards tools were "Power-kraft". Wards outboards were Sea King IIRC. Some of their garden tractors were Simplicitys.

I can still remember going to Wards with my Dad and him buying tires. Recaps were $12-14.00, something like that. They had the same tool warranty as Sears. Mom used to buy me jeans, "dungarees" as she called them, at Wards when they went on sale.

I can recall when JC Penny still sold tools and guns!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2012

I bought Wards Riverside tires for my 1964 Falcon and the whole set of 4 tires with installation and balancing was $42. I was only making $3.28 per hour back then.

Mike M · Mar 23, 2012

I have a pair of them on the back of a JD LA.

Billy Shafer · Mar 23, 2012

I have an old Wards Riverside air compressor. Sears and Wards sold a lot of things. Sears even sold houses in kit form at one time.

randy hall · Mar 23, 2012

riverside was a wards trademark. their tires all had it on them. in their old farm catalogs from the fifties wards sold alot of farm machinery, tractors, plows, wagons, horse harness, fence and on and on.by the way my grandpa had a david bradley elevator that he bought from the sears store.

greygoat · Mar 23, 2012

"Monkey Wards" tools were "Powerkraft" and they
sold J. C. Higgens bicycles, also! I always
thought that their products were of a better
quality than Sears.

casenut1 · Mar 23, 2012

i know where a Sear's house is at.the former owner told me that when he was a kid it came in on a train car and they had to truck it out to the site.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2012

My model T has a Wards Riverside replacement radiator.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2012

I worked at Firestone during the years they furnished tires to Ward. Large volumn including truck & bus type tires.

rrlund · Mar 23, 2012

I've got a pair of them on an Oliver 70. 11x40s

Goose · Mar 23, 2012

I have a "New Haven" 12 guage pump shotgun I bought from Wards back in the 1970's. It's actually a Mossberg 500.

Also have a Wards "Powerkraft" 230 amp arc welder I bought in the late '60's. It's done its job flawlessly over the years. Built a half dozen stock cars, several trailers, the usual repair welding on a farm, other projects, etc.

Brian G. NY · Mar 23, 2012

When my Dad and I rebuilt a WD back in "58, he bought all 4 Wards Riverside tires for it.
Wards even had a tractor installer truck that came right to the farm. I have just one of the tires left and I took it off the tractor just a few years ago after it and it"s mate developed some serious sidewall cracks. They lasted almost 50 years and received their heaviest wear in their last 10 years.
Back in the 60s I bought many, many tires from Wards.
You could go directly to their "catalog warehouse" in Albany and pay catalog prices without paying the shipping.
Those were the "good ol" days"!

Anonymous-0 · Mar 23, 2012

I have a set of knobby tread tires still on my farmall f-12. They are a little weather checked but still hold air. They are very unique.

k6zrx · Mar 23, 2012

The Wards tires were such big sellers back in the day, and such a part of the automotive aftermarket, that they are reproduced for the Model T. My 1943 Ford army jeep had Wards tires when I got it, and so did my 1929 Ford Model A. Who knows how old they were, but were still in good shape.

Wards had some good stuff. Just finished restoring a Wards Airline radio made in 1937. Top quality design and construction. Very sensitive and selective receiver, with a neat dial that projects the frequency and callsigns onto a frosted glass screen.

JH

ldj · Mar 23, 2012

On a Jeep tour last fall we came upon an old jail. Tour guide said it was ordered from Sears.

evilboweviel · Mar 23, 2012

Last house was a SEARS house
walls were all straight and square
not like the brand new house I bought after I sold that one
Ron

evilboweviel · Mar 23, 2012

had a complete set on my 66 that grandpa had put on in the 60's
finally wore them out and replaced them about 8 years ago
Ron

soder33 · Mar 23, 2012

old ad for Ward's Riverside tires

Duner Wi · Mar 23, 2012

From 1908 until 1961, Sears, Roebuck & Company sold a wide variety of sporting goods and recreational equipment, including bicycles, golf clubs, rifles, shotguns, and revolvers under the brand name "J. C. Higgins."
I think Wards bikes were Hawthorne.

Brian G. NY · Mar 23, 2012

Goose, I picked up one of those "PowerKraft" welders at a garage sale a few years back; I like to weld with it a little better than my real old Forney but I think if "push come to shove" the Forney would stand more heavy duty use.

barnE · Mar 23, 2012

Have Wards Hawthorne shotgun. Single barrel, single shot, hammerless with safety. Never seen another like it. Dave

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