AndyFowler Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 "Jacks latest consignment of obsolete tyres from Malaysia , not quite what he was expecting" This time next year he'll be a millionaire ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 Our fearless leader Jack gets the boys well stuck into the authentic re-enactment preparations for Armour + Embarkation but no one dares to tell him the props are from the wrong war! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Degsy Posted June 6, 2010 Share Posted June 6, 2010 The majority of the US trucks would need six tyres each. The mileage you could expect from a set is in the thousands, certainly not more than 10,000. High speeds and bad roads would reduce this figure further. At the end of the war the US had exported over 40,000 heavy trucks to France, so if they all needed new tyres at the same time that would be 360,000. As you can work out they could get through 85,000 tyres very quickly. I am just trying to find out where this photo was taken, but i think it was at the main truck repair/reconstruction depot just South of Paris. I have just written an article for MMI on this depot (having found a great big bundle of original photos), and hopefully it will come out in the September issue. Timothy!!! :n00b:Take 100 lines: I must learn my 6 times table properly.:writing::rofl: 6x40,000= 240,000 9x40,000= 360,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I asked for a rubber and look what I got... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Military specification Hula Hoops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
protruck Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 You was only surposed to blow the bloody doors off! Clive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnixartillery Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 How to repair the 'Great wall of China'!!!!!! Rob.....................rnixartillery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel demon Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Vhy hav zey sent all zees tyres to Berlin commrade ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynx42 Rick Cove Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 40,000 trucks? I had no idea of the scale of mechanisation. Whilst it is hard to find good photos of mechanized transport from WW1, I beleive there were more than 100,00 3 ton trucks (lorrys for you lot over there) supplied during WW1. 6,000 were A10 Albions. I need 2 for the front of my Albion thanks. I really do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Whilst it is hard to find good photos of mechanized transport from WW1, ........QUOTE] Isn't that the truth! We do tend to build up a (not necessarily accurate) idea of what went on from pouring over photographs as much as reading, and I'll own up to not having read much abour WW1. So I had formed the view that motorised transport was pretty thin on the ground. A bit like trying to find photos of the major supply depot at Beugny - begining to wonder if it even existed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 "The army's first attempts to poduce twinwall drainage pipe by gluing old truck tyres together ended up with a product far too heavy to lift" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 "The serious shortage of nails drove men to desperate measures" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woa2 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Not many people know about the serious problems the Polo Mint manufacturers had when they went from Imperial measurements to Metric, as the photo shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzaw Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Right Smiff....next time you say to the RSM you like a bit of 'O' make sure you don't include us in your comments, you B.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 Whilst it is hard to find good photos of mechanized transport from WW1, I beleive there were more than 100,00 3 ton trucks (lorrys for you lot over there) supplied during WW1. QUOTE] Yes, certainly more than 100,000. The US Army took over more than 40,000 for their own use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 If it is of any interest, Tim, here is the press used for steam wagon and motor truck solid tyre changes. Yes they are Scammell front weight - sized billets on the table. We reckon it was 'well secondhand' in 1919! The pump is a 4 speed - two different sized bore pumps, each with a "splitter" (well ok, each fulcrum pin has two sets of holes ). There is an electric pump at the back for quick positioning or the whole job if you feel lazy, but the hand pump gives delicate control towards the end of the push :cool2: My dad was his dad's 'child slave' on the pumps, just as I was his :sweat: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoggyDriver Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 "I told them fools at supply I wanted a load of Durex, not Dunlops!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War truck Posted June 8, 2010 Author Share Posted June 8, 2010 What a fabulous bit of kit that is. I will dig through my photos to compare it to some others that i have seen. A really useful thing to have. Thanks for posting those, it has made my day. Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Collins Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 I told the kids not to use my credit card to by tyres off ebay. And look what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nz2 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Likewise Tim, I've seen parts of early tyre presses, now modified, but nothing complete as this. Those pump units are interesting. Are those also original pressing spacers on the rack( circular sections)? Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nz2 Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Calling Dr Who; Please transport me back to this supply depot to collect tyres required for a present day restoration. Then again while in the time zone why not just pick up a few complete trucks! Doug Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Child Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 "No, I said I wanted Quantity 1, 1000 wide O-Ring...." Or possibly a computer games reference... "curse you Sonic the Hedgehog" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airportable Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Come on chap's my wedding ring is here somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
N.O.S. Posted June 8, 2010 Share Posted June 8, 2010 Likewise Tim, I've seen parts of early tyre presses, now modified, but nothing complete as this. Those pump units are interesting. Are those also original pressing spacers on the rack( circular sections)?Doug No the cast spacers on the ground laying against the rack I picked up one day from Joey Hunt's old scrapyard - looked like they would be very useful. I have no idea what they were - may even have been for this very purpose! All the original spacers were cast iron (maybe standard press practice?), the ones we haven't broken over the years are in the racking. We made vertical legs from box section steel which fit into slots under top plate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Peskett Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 Tired out, worn out !. Seriously though the logistical problem of tyres instantly became yet another nightmare of the early days of WW 1. Manufacturers despite the subsidy scheme to help with standardisation were fitting any size they thought of. In July 1915, hastily convened the Engineering Standards Committee and the S.M.M.T produced what became probably one of the first British Standards to be all metric complete with kite mark. Originally there were some 173 rim sizes in use but the B.S. reduced this down to 6 and even two of these were non preferred and it was recommended these be discontinued as soon as possible ( one of these were the fronts on LGOC 'B' type buses !. ). See Commercial Motor,July 1915 for more detail. Problem solved, well not so really, with many US built truck being purchaed by the British and Allied forces good old imperial sizes appeared although they seemed to have got their act together with a very small range of sizes. Nevertheless the French still did their own thing, several years ago we restored in my workshops a 1915 Pierce-Arrow R5 formerly of French army origin, this had by then acquired some most odd sized metric tyres . Richard Peskett. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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