I have a wheel. I have no idea what it is off. It was dug up out of the beach in Geographe Bay, WA.
My guess is a truck of some sort from approx early 1900’s.
Can anyone shed some light as to its origins?
Not quite, but close
1915 Daimler Lanchester:
Similar to 1910 Lacre too. Most of the old trucks seem to have 8 spokes though.
Yes, I’d say a lorry wheel or some kind of road maintenance vehicle etc. Too simple-looking to be a steam traction wheel.
Kingy, lack of scale makes it very difficult to assess correctly, but I’m guessing it’s not a Caterpillar Challenger idler wheel which, remarkably, looks almost identical.
Main difference – yours has elliptical holes between the spokes, my Cat idlers have round holes. Mine is approx 355mm across, including the solid rubber tyre.
I was thinking it might be a tracked vehicle wheel.
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/1296478150/OEM_heavy_duty_agricultural_cast_iron.html
pffft…dime a dozen!
:-)
Hmm looks remarkably like it, sans tyre.
Bubblecar said:
Hmm looks remarkably like it, sans tyre.
And sans bearings and holes drilled in cast for bearings.
Apart from a six stud arrangement, I would have said a mag wheel.
What cars had six studs?
Obviousman said:
Apart from a six stud arrangement, I would have said a mag wheel.What cars had six studs?
Big ones.
Probably fairly standard sort of wheel used for a few things going back, that one appears to have possibly been in a marine environment at some time.
The rear track wheel on a stuart tank is similar I notice too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuart_m5a1_cfb_borden.jpg
Obviousman said:
Apart from a six stud arrangement, I would have said a mag wheel.What cars had six studs?
Tritons
Bubblecar said:
I was thinking it might be a tracked vehicle wheel.
morrie said:
Bubblecar said:
I was thinking it might be a tracked vehicle wheel.
I notice that the tyre has a distinctive wear pattern, suggestive perhaps of tracks.
One wonders if it is part of a tank that was disposed of after the war?
morrie said:
Bubblecar said:
I was thinking it might be a tracked vehicle wheel.
I notice that the tyre has a distinctive wear pattern, suggestive perhaps of tracks.
Aye. There are two grooves going on there.
Bubblecar said:
morrie said:
Bubblecar said:
I was thinking it might be a tracked vehicle wheel.
I notice that the tyre has a distinctive wear pattern, suggestive perhaps of tracks.
Aye. There are two grooves going on there.
Yep.
Michael V said:
Kingy, lack of scale makes it very difficult to assess correctly, but I’m guessing it’s not a Caterpillar Challenger idler wheel which, remarkably, looks almost identical.Main difference – yours has elliptical holes between the spokes, my Cat idlers have round holes. Mine is approx 355mm across, including the solid rubber tyre.
Just had a chance to put a tape across it. It’s exactly 3 foot diameter, and 1 foot rim width.
I was trying to make sense of it in metric, and realised that my tape measure also had imperial units :)
It also weighs at least 800kg.
Kingy said:
Michael V said:
Kingy, lack of scale makes it very difficult to assess correctly, but I’m guessing it’s not a Caterpillar Challenger idler wheel which, remarkably, looks almost identical.Main difference – yours has elliptical holes between the spokes, my Cat idlers have round holes. Mine is approx 355mm across, including the solid rubber tyre.
Just had a chance to put a tape across it. It’s exactly 3 foot diameter, and 1 foot rim width.
I was trying to make sense of it in metric, and realised that my tape measure also had imperial units :)
It also weighs at least 800kg.
That’s a seriously heavy wheel. Has to be from something powerful big. I don’t really recall and rubber tyres on drive wheels from the steam era.