Hi there.
I am new to this forum. My name is Tim Pringle. I live between Suffolk, near Felixstowe and Catalunya, north Spain. I am an avid lover of all ancient machinery, and use various tractors on an olive grove in Spain as part of our business.
I have always loved Military Vehicles, but I am not able as such to be a collector. However in the line of farming my olives, I have acquired a very unusual trailer.
It is an amazing piece of kit, very heavy, ancient, rusty, and a little "adapted" to put it mildly,but has been beautifully built. It definitely must be WW II vintage, and I was told it had been a searchlight trailer. However, it is extremely heavily built with a massive chassis. The front wheels/axle bogey is detachable via a heavy duty pin, (all seized up at present). The linkage is sprung by a quarter leaf spring, and sits well down between the wheels. The rear side members have been "trimmed" on either side to remove ?stabiliser arms/brackets as they radiate out diagonally from the centre, plus there is the remains of a steel box like structure on the front of the trailer. The chassis is at present covered in some fairly rotten old railway sleepers.
Prior to me acquiring it, it had been used as a yacht trailer. When I discovered it, it was lying in a field abandoned, but immediately I could see a use for it in transporting my Same crawler, firstly from the truck it arrived on, and now between my two 'lands'.
I enclose some photos, but unfortunately I have none of the trailer on its own, and its layout. Unfortunately the best picture is on a file that is too large to load. At present the trailer is in Spain, but the reasons I have joined the forum is I would love to know its original military purpose, and I could do with a couple of 'military' tyres to replace one ex lorry tyre, and another with a seriously split wall. Does anyone know who can supply 900 X 16 tyres?
Cheers Tim