A neighbour has a rather nicely built vintage tipper trailer based on two WWII era aircraft wheels – However, it is very much a working vehicle on his land and is far too useful to consider parting with! That was until one of the tyres finally gave up last week after many years of shifting rubble etc. – see photos.
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One tyre is marked “33 x 9” and the other “10.00 x 15”, so if anyone has a reasonably sound looking one of this size going spare he would probably be interested.
Also anyone any idea what the wheels are off?
By: N.Wotherspoon - 25th July 2014 at 14:53
Thanks for that – Yes, now I have looked more closely at the photo, I think you are right the size 10.00 x 11.5 – afraid I just cut and pasted from the owners email.
I have not seen the trailer lately – its probably stuck out in one of the fields with its collapsed tyre!
When I looked more closely at it a couple of years ago, I could not find any cast or or stamped numbers, probably due to the layers of paint and mud! But will try to look again.
By: Beermat - 23rd July 2014 at 12:47
Those tyre dimensions are a bit odd, are you sure the second one isn’t 10.00 x 11.5?
33 x 9 looks like a type VII designation, I think post-war, suggesting a 33″ overall diameter and a 9″ tyre width, wall-to-wall. It doesn’t say much about the hub/rim, though.
The wheel is a standard Dunlop 4-spoke type, as per Spitfire and many other types. I couldn’t say by looking at it which – can you measure it rim-to-rim? Or look for an AH-prefixed number stamped into the casting?
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July 22, 2014 at 6:47 pm