So what are these from?

Ju this is one of the 5. I remember cycling around curbridge and spotted 4 on a harvest wagon. I went and asked the farmer if he had anymore. He said I’ve got the remains of 5 Horsas that I bought at the end of the war. He said he’d burnt one wheel the week before and it had gone off like a flare….hardly surprising. You and I and Peter IIRC went to collect the wheels. I was still at school lol! Most were in a garage with a lovely old Vauxhall wyvern. I remember he said you can have the remains of the horsas, got so excited until he handed me a bucket! He’d burnt them and put the steel fittings in a bucket. We also recovered several undercarriage legs. Those were great days. I wish I’d got to keep one of those wheels. So yes, deffo Horsa.

Just dug it out of the shed, and put some air in it !

Oh, please don’t get excited by the writing, no, sadly there is no Oxfordshire Aircraft Collection to visit, way back in the 80’s we had a fair selection including Mosquito TJ118 but mostly we were an archaeological recovery group.

I had forgotten how good a condition the wheel was. We found 5 I think on a farm very close to Brize Norton, we have always assumed it is Horsa, as many were sold off from the area.

Jules

could they be Whitley ?

No Cees, I would kill for some Whitley wheels

The do look a lot smaller in the photos than they really are I thought they were tail wheels when I found them

Tyres marked 12-25/12 895×295 ‘WN15’ 10175. With Air Ministry marks to the hubs; numbers AM2164 and 14059

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they look very much like my Horsa wheel………….

Do you already have a set Elliott?

They look a bit like whitley wheels

Nice, an estimate of £200 on them. will have to see what they make

Blenheim, Horsa type.