1864 A. J. Bloor Lett. Army Potomac 6 Those that have rubber coats or blankets to keep off the rain, now descending faster than ever, feeling their great advantage over those who, rubberless, vainly seek dry spots.

1884 Longman's Mag. Mar. 486 The terrible jar which its rubberless wheels..communicated to the system of the rider.

1948 Pop. Mech. Dec. 266/2 Experimental stretches of road in the Netherlands, after 10 years of use including heavy wartime traffic, are in first-class condition compared with stretches of rubberless asphalt.

1971 Antioch Rev. 31 57 The skeletal convoys of burned out cars and ancient trucks, sagging on rubberless wheels on either side of the narrow streets.

2006 R. Liparulo Germ xcvi. 458 In front of one of the hangars, dozens of military vehicles squatted on rubberless rims, rusting.

1891 C. Mitford Lett. & Reminisc. J. Mitford 99 Mr. Mills..had not undertaken a journey of some half-dozen miles..in order to be sent rubberless away.