Bob,
Thankyou for the history lesson. I really enjoyed it.
No if I could just find a couple of small diameter spinners for
LATS.................
Erich
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Palmer" <rpalmer@ucsd.edu>
To: "'Theo Smit'" <theo.smit@dynastream.com>; <Veeseeoso@aol.com>; "'Steve
Laifman'" <SLaifman@socal.rr.com>; "'"Tiger's Den"'" <tigers@Autox.Team.Net>
Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 9:31 PM
Subject: RE: Who made the LAT wheels
> Theo,
>
> "HANDS" is, as you say, just "H AND S" without the spaces. Norm gives the
> background on pages 94-97 of TBON. The "H" & "S" were for "Hershey" and
> "Smith", the two founding - or is that foundering - families. The
precursor
> to the LAT-70's was designed and cast by HANDS (or hand?) starting in
around
> 1962, but the finish machining was sub-contracted to Schroeder Steering.
> Owner Gordon Schroeder was well known in Sprint and Indy car circles (just
> can't seem to avoid these double entendres). In 1964 Warren Smith started
a
> new enterprise with Ford and sold H&S to Teledyne, which I believe has
since
> become Teledyne Cast Products Pomona, California. Following this, Smith
> turned H&S's specialty wheel operation completely over to Schroeder, who
> among other things, designed and built the Cragar S/S wheel, a '65 Shelby
> option. He also modified the original H&S design, which with slight
> differences was the LAT-70, Mustang II, etc. Norm writes that on the
> Schroeder manufactured wheels, "SRC 1300" replaced "HAND" and that "SRC"
was
> an acronym for "Schroeder Race Cars". There were three versions of the
> LAT-70's, differing in the length and diameter of the hub.
>
> Bob
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