Bomber Wheels On A Truck Picture On FB

So one must have fell off the back of the lorry.

http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?128701-Another-big-black-thing-washed-up-on-the-beach

An update from Walker’s of Tuxford.

A copy of the photograph hangs in their current board room and was taken at Marshall’s Yard, Gainsborough, Lincs, and the items on the trailer are Ship Fenders!

Can you also check if it’s true that it’s the site of a very upmarket warbirds airshow that can only be attended in ‘black tie’?

🙂

Moggy

Notts Legends apparently!

Plus never respond in the Metro Centre. :o:o

…and the sugar is refined.

Can you also check if it’s true that it’s the site of a very upmarket warbirds airshow that can only be attended in ‘black tie’?
Moggy

It’s so posh that even the aircraft have tails.

:confused: I can ask the question.

One of the museum trustees lives in Tuxford, I’ll ask ….

Can you also check if it’s true that it’s the site of a very upmarket warbirds airshow that can only be attended in ‘black tie’?

🙂

Moggy

The same tread pattern shows up on this Onions towed scraper.

Clearly smaller tires, so I think this picture really only proves that this tread pattern wasn’t just used on B-17s.

Walker & Sons Ltd has been made aware of the thread / photograph, but I’m still awaiting their feedback! 🙂

Based on my engineering experience, the wheels & tyres were used on a dump truck or earthmoving truck on an open cast mining or large construction site

Walker & Sons at Tuxford have moved several aircraft for Newark Air Museum, providing both lorries and cranes e.g. Draken from RAF Scampton to NAM in 1994.

One of the museum trustees lives in Tuxford, I’ll ask whether he knows anyone from the company.

The AEC dates from the late 50s. Dump truck or earthmover I suspect.

Exactly.
Clearly the truck is too recent for WWII.
Also the wheels are incorrect for an aircraft.

AEC Mandator Mk III, with 1959 Nottingham registration mark.

I see from the firm’s website that the photo is captioned ‘Late 1950s’ and that they moved from East Markham to Tuxford in 1960.

A search for ‘Walker and Sons’ returns this :- http://www.walker-tuxford.co.uk/history/index.php?cat_id=27

The website has the photo – but no caption – but it has a Contacts page, so maybe a quick email ??……

Ken

Early 1960’s AEC,

now, there was a thread on here a year or so ago that featured a large tyre of this type washed up on a beach somewhere. Turned out is was correctly identified as being from a dock, where is was used as a running fender for ships. Mounted sideways, they let ships run alongside the dock.

The AEC dates from the late 50s. Dump truck or earthmover I suspect.

Yes, even look too big for the b-36.

If that guy standing on the trailer deck is of average height then I guesstimate those tyres are about 11 ft diameter – much to large for a Lancaster or B-17 ???

The Truck (an AEC?) looks a bit modern for that era of aircraft to – perhaps someone can date it.

I can’t read any of the notice but adding in the depth of the tread I would guess (again) they are for an earth-mover type vehicle?

Roger Smith.

Tread pattern looks the same as a B-17 tyre section I have.