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Unless you are dating them for concours purposes, I would not put them on any vehicle other than as rolling cinderblocks to hold it off the ground.
Don't know if the above videos address it, but the Paul Walker crash was almost entirely attributable to outdated tires with greatly reduced grip. Regular car and truck tires are compromised after 5-6 years. Performance tires are losing traction and reliability in no more than 2-3.
Don't even consider putting these possibly 40yo tires on anything but a museum car.
I am not certain when tire date stamps started being put on tires, I know when I was a kid in the 70's, they did not exist or I was somehow completely ignorant of them (and being a car guy even then, I think I would have found out somehow).
The pictured tire seems to be from that time before date stamps.
Just looking at the cracks in that white wall though, yeah, what the other guys have already said, don't use these for anything other than static display, or maybe an agricultural cart to pull with a tractor.
There won't be a date code on the tire and there won't be a DOT rating either, if they are as old as you claim. Mohawk Tire Company was primarily a large truck tire maker. On some of the 18 wheelers I had, that was a preferred tire. They lasted a long time with 100,000 miles on a 10.50x 20 tire being common. They made a few smaller tires for cars and trucks but they were marketed as a cheapy tire. They made tires for trailers as well and were a reasonably decent tire. Today, you'll find Mohawk labeled tries at Discount Tire. They are a advertising leader type of tire that is made by Yokohama Tire Co. If your tires have a numerical size on the casing, like a 7.50x 15, it's a truck or trailer tire. If the size includes a letter like a C70x 15, it's a low profile car tire. Mohawk is alive and well in the industry but they are more tuned into the tire service and machinery. They don't make tires anymore but make the tools the tire dealers use to mount, balance, and parts required like valve stems, TPMS, etc.
If made by Mohawk Tire of Akron, a Google search led to a NYT article that said they closed on Thanksgiving of 1978, so, yeah, that tire is way past retirement age.
I am not certain if the Mohawk tire service equipment now being sold is related to that old Akron company or not. You positive about that Trapper?
Even on a trailer, I'd look at replacements. It sounds like you're storing the trailer for the foreseeable future, but if a year from now you load it up and take it on the highway, 40+ year old tires could be a recipe for disaster, if not a simple PITA stranding somewhere.
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