Unidentified Vehicle Wheels / Rims

[Montyjn]

Hi all. Thanks for adding me. I’m the owner of a champ and ferret based in North Buckinghamshire with a general interest in military vehicles and restoration.  
 

Along with the champ I also have a sankey trailer. This trailer came with the wheels in the attached pictures. I suspect these aren’t original and was hoping someone could help me identify them. Perhaps the lugs on them were for snow chains or manoeuvring a towed artillery gun etc?

Be great to know.
 

Monty 

[07BE16]

I have seen these modified wheels  fitted on MOBAT Recoilless Rifles. Others may be able to confirm if it was a modification specifically for MOBAT.

[radiomike7]

https://www.flickr.com/photos/buzzer999/7573732326

Might the lugs be for netting?

[Tim Vibert]

Hi, lugs are for drag ropes to assist shifting the Mobat or similar towed vehicle in muddy conditions.  Tim

[Montyjn]

Thanks guys. That’s really helpful. Not sure they’re much use to me and glad I didn’t swap something off the sankey trailer that belonged on it!

[radiomike7]

20 hours ago, Tim Vibert said:

Hi, lugs are for drag ropes to assist shifting the Mobat or similar towed vehicle in muddy conditions.  Tim

Are you sure, they are only held on by two small tack welds?  The pivoting ring on the hub would be the better place to fit drag ropes.

[Adrian Barrell]

Definitely drag rope hooks. The ropes have a single hook on one end which hooks into the ring in the centre of the axle for normal pulling and the other end has a pair of rings on chains. These pass over the tyre and hook onto these lugs on the inside and outside of the rim. With the rope running over the tyre tread, this gives much increased leverage, albeit for a very short distance but useful to pull a wheel out of a hole.

[radiomike7]

15 hours ago, Adrian Barrell said:

Definitely drag rope hooks. The ropes have a single hook on one end which hooks into the ring in the centre of the axle for normal pulling and the other end has a pair of rings on chains. These pass over the tyre and hook onto these lugs on the inside and outside of the rim. With the rope running over the tyre tread, this gives much increased leverage, albeit for a very short distance but useful to pull a wheel out of a hole.

That makes more sense, I was not aware that the wheel had lugs on the inside as well.