Help with wheel identification

[alexb811]

Hello!

First off thank you for the add to the forum, looks like an amazing place and I hope to be an active member for a long time.

Im looking for some help with identification of an air craft wheel. British and potentially ww2 era. The tyre is stamped 32x10.00 with the broad arrow crows foot. Any help would be massively appreciated

many many thanks guys!

 

[Wurger]

IMHO , it a post-war wheel rather. It may be the Gloster Meteor main wheel.

the pic source: the net.

 

[MiTasol]

I agree with Wurger

If you look carefully on the tyre there should also be a manufacture date in small letters - usually just monthyear - and that will help confirm this.

 

[Wurger]

With MiT .... There is also the size of the tyre 32/1??? seen partially in the second screenshot. What is the full number? There also should be a number that starts with AH prefix.

 

[Airframes]

Certainly from that period. My first thought was Hawker Hunter or EE Lightning, but I'm away from all my references, being in a field in sunny Norfolk !

 

[Wurger]

Certainly from that period. My first thought was Hawker Hunter or EE Lightning, but I'm away from all my references, being in a field in sunny Norfolk !

It was my first thought as well. But looking at these hubs for the planes I wouls say rather no. Although the Gloster Meteor one looks the same , the tyre seems to be more narow than the one for the plane. So there is still a doubt.

 

[Engineman]

It was my first thought as well. But looking at these hubs for the planes I wouls say rather no. Although the Gloster Meteor one looks the same , the tyre seems to be more narow than the one for the plane. So there is still a doubt.

I think the OP Picture tyre is deflated, giving a narrow look.
Tyre size looks to be 32x10.00-15.

Eng

 

[Wurger]

I think the OP Picture tyre is deflated, giving a narrow look.
Tyre size looks to be 32x10.00-15.

Eng

That's possible. Therefore I have asked the thread sender for more data that should be found both on the tyre and hub.

 

[MiTasol]

With MiT .... There is also the size of the tyre 32/1??? seen partially in the second screenshot. What is the full number? There also should be a number that starts with AH prefix.

There will only be an AH number if it is a Dunlop wheel. Dowty, Palmer and others were making wheels in that period and their numbers are different

It looks like the wheel part number is K63630 to me.

 

[Wurger]

Yes the AH number would be helpful. The K63630 is the K63630/1 actually. Unfortuantely I haven't found anyting on the number. IMHO there is more numbers on the hub. Just it is needed to have a more close up view.

 

[Airframes]

Just looked at some pics online, and it looks very like a EE/BAC Lightning main wheel - same rim and same number of bolts, with very similar cross section.

 

[MiTasol]

Yes the AH number would be helpful. The K63630 is the K63630/1 actually. Unfortuantely I haven't found anyting on the number. IMHO there is more numbers on the hub. Just it is needed to have a more close up view.

Some manufacturers number their components as K63630 for the complete assembly, K63630-1 or /1 for the main component, K63630-2 or /2 for the next main component, etc so I still suspect we are dealing with a K63630 wheel assembly. As I said before there will only be an AH number if it is a Dunlop wheel. Dowty, Palmer and all the other wheel makers of the time used their own part number systems.

For example on the Beaufort the Dowty tail wheel hub does NOT have an AH number.

 

[Engineman]

That's possible. Therefore I have asked the thread sender for more data that should be found both on the tyre and hub.

Agree with your Meteor mainwheel as most likely. Photo evidence I have found is strong for Meteor, but exact numbers will be 100%.
Cheers

5port

 

[Wurger]

Just looked at some pics online, and it looks very like a EE/BAC Lightning main wheel - same rim and same number of bolts, with very similar cross section.

Almost my friend, almost the same ... if you have a look at the close up shots you may notivce the differences. The rim of the hub is of the different shape. The requested hub has it flat while the EE/BAC Lightning has it with an embossed groove. The inner disk of the Gloster Meteor hub like the requested one has the round holes embossed with the small nuts of the screws in there. The Lightning hub has them just of the open type with the inner brake parts seen through. But the main difference is the a circle of screws around the edge of the central slot for the main pivot of the Lightning hub. What is more the requested hub and the Meteor one have the eight round large holes and the eight smaller ones including the one for the wheel valve. The EE/BAC Lightning hub has also eight large holes but there aren't the smaller ons. The tyre valve is in one of the large slot but not like the requested one in the small apperture.

EE/BAC Lightning hub ...

Gloster Meteor hub ...

the requested one ..,

 

[Airframes]

Ah, yes, I see now !
Certainly looks like a Meteor wheel.

 

[rochie]

Just looked at some pics online, and it looks very like a EE/BAC Lightning main wheel - same rim and same number of bolts, with very similar cross section.

Was my first thought but it looked too wide on closer inspection !