wheel rim question

[ldladyvt]

Gathering rims together for painting to match a car we are doing we ended up with nine rims but one looked out of place.  Similar but not the same.  We took an inside ( the two lips that a tubeless tire seals on ) measurement and eight rims measured 5 1/2 inches across which is correct for the Kaiser (1954) but the other one only measured 41/2 inches across but it did fit on the brake drum of the 54 Kaiser. ( The rim is a 15 inch rim).  Could this be a Henry J rim?  We haven't had a ' J ' in years and the one we did have was green and this rim is ivory.  It also has no clips for a hub cap.

[joefrazer]

Does the face of the rim look like the one in the picture? If so, it's HJ.

[Gordie]

The early 1947 Kaisers and Frazer's used wheels with no clips and the hub caps were held on by knobs on the wheel similar to what Ford used from 1940 thru 1948.

[ldladyvt]

pictures of the rim.

[ldladyvt]

system will only take one picture at a time.  Rim seems to be Henry J and will be looking for a new home.

[ldladyvt]

one more photo.

[Fid]

Definitely not Henry J.  The green one below is a Henry J wheel and it's got a sculptured rib/ring around the lug nuts.
Looks like it's '51 or later Kaiser that's missing the hubcap clips.  See blue one below, it's off my '51 Kaiser.

[joefrazer]

Near the valve stem hole there should be a stamping that includes the size. KF used 15x5 1/2 rims from Motor Wheel for the big cars and 15x4 1/2 for the HJ and Darrin. Some very early cars used 16x5 rims.

[Gordie]

The early parts book indicates that K-F used 16 inch rims for export cars in the early years.

[ldladyvt]

It is a 15 inch rim but only 4 1/2 wide.  No markings by the valve stem hole but there are the little raised metal tabs that show up on the 54/55 full size Kaiser rims to help stop the wheel covers from rotating.  May be best to recycle this odd ball rim so we don't mix it back in with our other Kaiser rims.  Thanks for the help.