Rlangham Posted September 28, 2009 Share Posted September 28, 2009 Saw this wagon chassis at the Blists Hill Victorian Museum (part of the Ironbridge museums) and the wheels looked very familiar - checked back home and they look like Albion A10 wheels, what do you guys think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 Not sure. The wheels are similar but the spokes are a bit more curved. Also the hubs are not quite right for trucks. So my thought is that it was a commercially built trailer. Still, it would look nice behind all sorts of trucks. Thanks for posting that. Tim (too) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cel Posted October 5, 2009 Share Posted October 5, 2009 When did they start welding frames like this? It looks quite the wagon for doing some heavy haulage. I visited Ironbridge in May of this year, what a great piece of engineering it is! Marcel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Welding was known in ancient times. Oxy Acetaline welding came in about 1900. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynx42 Rick Cove Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Albion A10's were fitted with 2 different size wheels during WW1. The standard wheel was 720 x 120mm. and for more ground clearance, 880 x 120mm. wheels were fitted. The hub caps are also completely different to the one's in your trailer photo. . Attached are photos's from the Albion Archives in Biggar, Scotland. The colour photo of the wheel is from a model built by the apprentices at Albion in 1940. There is a second on display at the Australian War Museum in Canberra We visited there on the 17th August 2009 and located the actual build card for my A10. My chassis was laid down on 6th December 1915 for completion mid February 1916. Regards Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynx42 Rick Cove Posted October 6, 2009 Share Posted October 6, 2009 Don't know where the other photo's went too, so here goes again. By the way, the pinion sprocket was also changed to suit the bigger wheels. Mine has 18 teeth and the larger wheels had 14 teeth. Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charawacky Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Is this Albion G-Box Ex WD?, I have no idea! the advert suggests a car! - seemingly it has a speedo drive. http://www.prewarcar.com/classifieds/ad58253-2.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8_10 Brass Cleaner Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 (edited) Saw this wagon chassis at the Blists Hill Victorian Museum (part of the Ironbridge museums) and the wheels looked very familiar - checked back home and they look like Albion A10 wheels, what do you guys think? Its a trailer chassis by Fodens of Sandbach, built in the late 1920's for use behind steam wagons or steam tractors. That one was an end tipping trailer. It was likely given to the museum by Jack Crabtree and is wasted at the museum, they look after nothing. I have a catalogue somewhere, I will dig it out and scan it. Here is a similar but lighter pattern Foden trailer I saved, it had a living van body built on it, likely from new. Edited September 13, 2011 by 8_10 Brass Cleaner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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