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Wheel query

This wheel has also been donated to the museum. The donor said it was off a Spitfire, but then they nearly always do.

Any gen would be welcome.

Geoff.

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By: Rocketeer - 7th September 2005 at 21:34

Rocketeer,
Do you have access to the Dunlop drawing numbers?

I remember looking through a very well used book of these in the Aviation D.O. when an apprentice there in the ’60s. Oh if scanners had been invented then!

From recollection for WW2 era drawings there would be four numbers after
the AH (or AD or AC).

Roger Smith.

I have the lists of wheel numbers….I have grip/column numbers too

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By: Geoff K - 7th September 2005 at 20:06

I checked the hub today, but couldn’t see any markings on it at all????

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By: RPSmith - 7th September 2005 at 09:50

Geoff….the AH number on the wheel casting is what we need. An AH10019 would suggest Spit/Hurri

Rocketeer,
Do you have access to the Dunlop drawing numbers?

I remember looking through a very well used book of these in the Aviation D.O. when an apprentice there in the ’60s. Oh if scanners had been invented then!

From recollection for WW2 era drawings there would be four numbers after
the AH (or AD or AC).

Roger Smith.

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By: Geoff K - 6th September 2005 at 19:00

I’ll try and get that tomorrow.

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By: Rocketeer - 6th September 2005 at 18:34

Geoff….the AH number on the wheel casting is what we need. An AH10019 would suggest Spit/Hurri

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By: Geoff K - 6th September 2005 at 18:24

The wheel was found on Leysdown Marshes, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, in 1954/55.

These are the markings on the wheel.

Geoff.

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