On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:56:51 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher
wrote:

David Billington writes:

In the UK and I expect elsewhere in the world you can get solely metric
dimensioned tyres and even in the UK be sitting down when you get told
the price, often about 3 times that of a similar sized inch diameter tyre.

But we're talking the civilized world, not the island responsible
for B-L, Lucas electrics, and SU carbs & fuel pumps....

"Why use one part, when two will do the same job half as well?"
TRW had some metric specialty wheels, and Michelin made the tires
for them, on one of the small Mustang specials back in the eighties,
IIRC.