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October 16

tire width

I am trying to find out why some 2335/85/16 etc tires are only 4 wide in tred and others are 5 wide does it matter on a 3/4 ton truck — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.45.112.62 (talk) 02:44, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

It could matter from an insurance point of view if you have the wrong tires and get involved in an accident which wasn’t even your own fault. Is this an older 'classic' truck inherited from perhaps an older uncle?--Aspro (talk) 13:16, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Links that may help are Tire code and Tire size charts. Since many factors in tread design for a given code are controlled by the manufacturer, look to reputable tire comparison tests to inform your choice. AllBestFaith (talk) 18:41, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

Torquay King´s Garden

Does this garden stil exist? I estimated pre WW I. Am I correct?Smiley.toerist (talk) 22:49, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

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Can you help us out by giving the location ? StuRat (talk) 22:59, 16 October 2016 (UTC) It's in the title! What part of Torquay did you not understand? 86.28.195.109 (talk) 06:49, 17 October 2016 (UTC) All of it. Believe it or not, Torquay is not a household name worldwide. I've now provided a link so everyone else knows where it is. It wasn't even clear to me that it's a place, rather than the name of a King on some Pacific island. And even knowing that it's a place doesn't tell me where in Torquay the garden was located. All this info would have been useful up front. (Yes, I could find it by research, but shouldn't the OP give us all the info they have so we can skip this step ?) StuRat (talk) 14:22, 17 October 2016 (UTC) Here's a thought: if you didn't understand the question and couldn't be bothered to research it yourself, why didn't you just ignore it and go and do something else? --Viennese Waltz 14:32, 17 October 2016 (UTC) I can't believe that there are many parts of the world unfamiliar with Fawlty Towers :-) Alansplodge (talk) 16:01, 17 October 2016 (UTC) Here's a thought: if you yourself haven't bothered to research the question, why don't you stop attacking other editors in front of the OP, and go do something else? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 16:23, 17 October 2016 (UTC) It's one thing to research a Q to find the answer, it's quite another to be asked to research it because the OP hasn't asked the Q clearly. In that case, it's quite reasonable to ask them for a clarification. We often get Qs like "How far is Main Street from Maple Street ?", and we could, in theory, find every distance between every pair of streets so named, but wouldn't it be more reasonable to ask which city they mean ? StuRat (talk) 20:31, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

The garden still exists. Warofdreams talk 23:14, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Here's a recent photo from the same spot:[1] 2606:A000:4C0C:E200:45F2:2A:B116:86A4 (talk) 04:17, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

I have added the backside of the post card. I cant read the date stamp, only that it was posted in the afternoon. It looks like King George V.Smiley.toerist (talk) 09:59, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Can you provide a link for the backside pic you uploaded? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:27, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

The clothing, especially the length of the girl's skirt, seems to me to be consistent with a date immediately prior to the Great War, so George V (from 1910) would be right. "The gardens were opened in 1905, by the Mayor of Torquay". [2] You may be able to narrow down the date by the stamp, although postcards could remain on sale for several years. The first stamps issued in time for the 1911 coronation are known as "Downey Head" stamps after the man who took the photograph. They were replaced in 1912 by the "Mackennal Profile" stamps which remained in circulation until 1933. Alansplodge (talk) 16:08, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

Okay, I've just found your "Backside Torquay postcard" image - the stamp is a "Downey Head" and was issued between June 1911 and late 1912. See also Stamps on Postcards - a guide to dating cards. Alansplodge (talk) 16:38, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

If I'm reading that postcard correctly, it was franked on 14 September 1912. Smurrayinchester 09:43, 18 October 2016 (UTC)