Spunky Monkey

This morning on my local dog walk I met the local farmer who was clearing out some land.
He had a couple of wheels that had been used as a farm trailer.
They had been slowly rotting away.
Can you guys help me identify them please?
They look like the style of wheel from a Hurricane, however they may be a little to large for that aircraft.
The approximate dimensions are
28inches across (Tyre)
17inches for the wheel
7.5 inches wide
Unfortunately, the identification on the tyre has long since rotten away.
Cool items that I am now wondering what to do with them.

treadigraph

Might be Sea Fury or Tempest - certainly look familiar.

lomapaseo

Have you tried buffing it.

Might fetch a better price

hiflymk3

Wooden oleos, how quaint.

Fareastdriver

A four spoked wheel looks like a Spitfire.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=...AAAAAdAAAAABAV

M.Mouse

I agree, Spitfire wheels.

Click image top left.

Next!

UniFoxOs

Sorry to disagree chaps, but the Spitfire wheel shown in the above post is fitted with a tyre marked up for a 10 1/2 inch rim, the OP's measurements give the rim as 17".

DaveReidUK

I wouldn't be so quick to rule out a Hurricane.

Edit: Or something bigger. I don't think a 28" wheel would fit a Spitfire wheel well.

Spunky Monkey

Thanks for your answers guys.
I think they are far too large for a Spitfire, however following Trendigraph's post I did a search on the Sea Fury and the Tempest and I feel that they could belong to the Tempest.
Here are some on ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/30357906528...SABEgLnV_D_BwE

If you notice the 4 bolts in the middle of the hub and the 8 nuts in the recesses, set in pairs.

Any other ideas most welcome.

(Wooden Oleo! haha!)

VP959

Whatever A/C they come from, they look like a brilliant find. Be interesting to find their history, and how they ended up being used on a farm trailer of all things.

WB627

I'm curious as to the airframe in the eBay photo, anyone any ideas?

treadigraph

Looks like it might be Hawker with those square ended tubes - my guess would be one of the several biplane fighter restoration projects still under way.

PS I love "Trendigraph" - I've never ever been described as trendy before! ​​​​​​​

DaveReidUK

If I were you, I'd be tempted to apply some PlusGas and an appropriate-sized spanner. You might well find a part number engraved somewhere not externally visible.

Wyvernfan

A good start would be to give them a scrub and look for a number beginning with AH.

Ancient Observer

I agree with MrReid. Plus gas and/or wd40. Lots of.

Loose rivets

A good start would be to make sure they're not under pressure. My mate Paddy was shown into a back room in an Irish pub on the west coast. There was a sizeable wheel from WWII. 'Have you pumped it up?' asks he. The answer was no. Never had air added and it was as hard as rock. 60 psi? Perhaps more.

megan

Here in Oz post war farmers bought up aircraft being disposed of as a source of nuts, bolts, tubing, wheels for making carts, even just to get the petrol out of the tanks as rationing was still in place. Uncle, a motor mechanic, had a couple of metal fuel tanks from an unknown aircraft in his shed. Farmers were adept at fashioning what they wanted/needed out of what was to hand, an aircraft was a veritable aladdins cave of useful bits.

DaveReidUK

Hmmm.

You mean that we were wasting our time, in my airline engineering days, doing tyre pressure checks on the fleet every third night ?

I suspect Paddy was simply looking at a tyre that had hardened with age, as they do.

ZFT

A lifetime ago whilst working at SAA I had the pleasure of flying on BSST. During a photo shoot sometime later a Spitfire SAA apprentices had rebuilt was positioned nose to nose with Concorde. The wheels for the Spitfire were found on a cement mixer in the bundu!

Ancient Observer

Concorde n Spitfire in the land of the "Temporary World champions''


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