Pneumatic tires and wheel rim assemblies

A pneumatic tire capable of running to a useful extent even when deflated, said tire being a tubeless, radial ply tire with a tread reinforcement, being mounted in a wheel rim, having a tire aspect ratio between 30% and 75%, the tread portion of said tire having a width greater than the width between the bead heels, the improvement comprising a coating of a lubricating material disposed on at least the interior surface of the tread to facilitate relative movement between contacting portions of the interior surface of the tire when the tire is driven deflated, said coating not being capable of flowing away from the portion of the interior surface to which it is applied either under gravity or under the forces generated inside a tire during inflated running, said coating comprising a gelled non-volatile lubricant having mixed intimately therein a particulate solid puncture sealing material in an amount of at least 0.15 mm.sup.3 per mm.sup.2 of tire interior surface coated, the particles of said material being of sizes distributed in a range extending from particles passing through a 7 mesh B.S. screen and retained on a 10 mesh B.S. screen to particles which will pass through a 150 micron aperture sieve, the volume of particulate solid material being at least 8% and no more than 66% of the total volume of said coating, said lubricant comprising a polybutene and a gelling agent comprising polyethylene.