I recently came across the two wheels pictured below at a non aviation location, Any help in identifing them would be greatly appreciated:)
The only info I could find on the hub was :-
Drg Nos.AH8208 issue 7 & Serial Nos. 79695/7
And the tyre size is 32x10x15
By: pagen01 - 8th December 2009 at 08:23
Nah I wish, look nice on the back of my Jag!
By: Wyvernfan - 8th December 2009 at 07:58
Very nice find James.. are they in your posession now.?
By: pagen01 - 8th December 2009 at 05:00
I found four of those wheels on a working trailer at Llandow last year…
Here they are, forth one out of shot.
By: Negative G - 7th December 2009 at 22:22
WOW many thanks for the replies folks, I think they came from RAF Woodvale nr Southport which makes them possibly off a Barracuda as i know they where based for a short while whilst a RNAS.
Sadly the wheels are presently in the hands of a man who intends to put them on a trailer of some sort, but I’m sure he would consider passing them on for the price of some other replacement wheels.
If anyone would like to contact him regarding these then I’d be happy to pass on his phone number via a PM.
Neg G:)
P.s DC COLLINS, I tried mailing you but it bounced back:confused:
By: TempestV - 23rd November 2009 at 13:31
Could it not be that 8379 just superceded 8208, apart from the valve hole being relocted there dosen’t seem to be much difference.
I think they are interchangable.
By: pagen01 - 23rd November 2009 at 12:41
Definitely in the Sea Fury parts list, I checked it this morning.
Could it not be that 8379 just superceded 8208, apart from the valve hole being relocted there dosen’t seem to be much difference.
By: Bograt - 23rd November 2009 at 12:15
Definitely in the Sea Fury parts list, I checked it this morning.
By: TempestV - 23rd November 2009 at 10:26
Sea Fury as well…….
Similar looking to the Sea Fury, but I believe these used the AH8379 in common with the Sea Hornet.
The main visual difference is the addition of the hole in one of the spokes.
By: Bograt - 23rd November 2009 at 09:52
Sea Fury as well…….
By: TempestV - 23rd November 2009 at 07:56
Hiya Folks,
They look like DH Vampire main wheel tyres to me…maybe from a T.11!
Cheers
Tony
These are not Vampire wheels.
By: pagen01 - 23rd November 2009 at 07:54
I found four of those wheels on a working trailer at Llandow last year, complete with backing plates and hubs etc. Apparently the trailer came from a farm near St Davids, so wondered if they were from a Sea Hornet, but err’d on the side of Firefly.
By: David Burke - 22nd November 2009 at 19:43
Mark 12 was bang on the money from the hallowed pages of the Dunlop wheels list!
By: Tony O - 22nd November 2009 at 19:30
DH Vampire
Hiya Folks,
They look like DH Vampire main wheel tyres to me…maybe from a T.11!
Cheers
Tony
By: TempestV - 22nd November 2009 at 19:07
AH8208
As Mark 12 says.
Negative G – are these available to a good home? 😀
Let me know: [email]dcollins103@hotmal.com[/email]
By: Mark12 - 22nd November 2009 at 19:02
Not de Havilland Hornet by any chance, where’s DC when you need him!?
Hornet, Tempest, Barracuda, Firebrand, Meteor and Firefly…marks specific.
Mark
By: Son of DH - 22nd November 2009 at 18:12
Not de Havilland Hornet by any chance, where’s DC when you need him!?
By: darnsarf - 22nd November 2009 at 17:26
They bear a resemblance to 4-spoke Spitfire wheels, e.g. –
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