Update on the 3 hole steering wheel replication. Keep in mind that we have no interest in Moto Lita or in making a business out of these wheels. We only want one for ourselves and the rest will have to be purchased from Moto Lita direct. I have the original wheel in my hands now. We did not want to send it over the the UK and risk it, etc. Moto Lita asked us to fully document the wheel and send an engineering drawing which I am working on now. Of interest (to me, anyway) is the difference in the wood laminations on the reproduction slotted wheels made by Moto Lita more recently and supplied by a restoration house and directly from Moto Lita. On the newer wheels I have from them, the wood lamination goes front to back looking at the front of the wheel. However, the original 3 hole wheel I have in my hands has the laminations going side to side meaning you can see the grain facing you when you look at the front of the wheel. See the photos. Same thing on an original wheel photo supplied by Simon at Moto Lita. It would be interesting to see if the original slotted wheels have the same grain laminations. The 2 original wheels 3 hole wheels that I have some measurements on also have thinner aluminum than the later ones. The aluminum on the original wheel I have in my hands measures 0.155" thick whereas the later wheel measures 0.195" which is quite visible to the naked eye. The later wheels are also correspondingly heavier. My uneducated guess is the original wheels were made from mahogany. I wonder how these issues compare with the original slotted wheels?