[SEL] Things You Find In A Scrapyard

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From: "Listerdiesel" <listerdiesel at gmail.com>
To: "Stationary-Engine" <stationary-engine at oldengine.org>
Cc: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:21 AM
Subject: Things You Find In A Scrapyard


> Went looking for some largish cast iron wheels today for the Ruston
> trolley. Something 15" - 18" diameter and 3" - 4" face would be nice,
> but you take what you can find.
>
> The owner and son were there in the office, and the Father took me
> outside and showed me where to look, but he didn't think there'd me
> much of interest in the two piles of scrap.
>
> After a bit of rooting around, a cast iron rubber-tyred wheel and hub
> and part of a support bracket came to light, then another and then a
> 3rd. Ideal size, albeit a bit heavy, but having the hub/bearings was a
> bonus. A further search turned up a similar wheel, which was attached
> to an axle, which was attached to a bl**dy great steel frame, and
> another wheel and finally another axle. Looks like a big engine
> trolley. It has a swivelling axle and is all complete.
>
> Walking round a bit more, I came across the fourth wheel from the
> first set I had found, so my cup runneth over!
>
> The 4 loose wheels are 17" diameter X 4" face, with tyres bonded on to
> take the OD to 20". After a bit of inspection, "FM CO 44" is found
> cast into the spokes, and the 'Firestone' logo and a date code "28 44"
> bonded into the rubber.
>
> We now know that these are almost certainly from a Universal Carrier,
> made by Ford Motor Co in Windsor, Ontario during WWII. That was what
> was called here a Bren Gun Carrier.
>
> Pictures are:
>
> http://www.stationary-engine.co.uk/Misc/Wheels4.jpg
> http://www.stationary-engine.co.uk/Misc/Wheels5.jpg
>
> I will probably strip the rubber off and use them as plain cast iron
> wheels, but we have a local company in St Ives that do traction engine
> tyres, so I have asked them how much to put new rubbers on.
>
> We have to go back for the trolley as that was buried under a few tons
> of scrap machinery, but that looks to be a different wheel as far as
> we can see. I'll do some pictures when we get it back home.
>
> Peter
> -- 
> Peter A Forbes
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