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mattg · Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Posts: 3 Location: UK

Hi,

My first post, and its a picture puzzle: can you identify this trailer?
Its a step frame, with dual rear axle and a fifth wheel type hitch at the front, which is currently connected to a bogey made from a lorry rear axle. It has a Thompson Bros. 4 ton winch.
Its sitting in a field, and I have am intrigued as to its origin...maybe one day it can be restored to its former glory!

I thought I had a better photo of the whole thing, will have to go out and get another one.

Cheers
Matt

Rootes75 · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2015 9:39 pm Post subject:

It looks quite short and that is quite a bit of framework around the winch.
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Penguin45 · Joined: 28 Jul 2014 Posts: 381 Location: Padiham

Tree trunks spring to mind.

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Peter_L · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 11:37 am Post subject:

Is there anything to suggest that it is not just a "one off" construction, possibly as a recovery vehicle.

lowdrag · Joined: 10 Apr 2009 Posts: 1585 Location: Le Mans

Living in France, it looks like a small guillotine, except that it isn't high enough. And I jest not - there's one in a museum not far from here.

Peter_L · Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2015 12:14 pm Post subject:

PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

In the Late '50s and early '60s it was not unusual for farmers in my part of the world to buy up ex WD trucks and convert them into large trailers for transporting hay and straw. the addition of crude 5th wheel turntables was not unusual. I wonder if that is the origins of this??

Penman · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4756 Location: Swindon, Wilts.

Hi
Even nowadays I think they get hold of old flat bed semi-trailers and have a draw bar dolly with a fifth wheel on it, they seem to use these for collecting in their big bales and other bulky loads.
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mattg · Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Posts: 3 Location: UK

It may well be a one off, or a hodge podge of other bits. As the grass dies down over winter Ill have a good poke around for any clues.
I guess it is difficult to make a one-off trailer road legal these days, even if it is a 'classic'??

Peter_L · Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2015 1:04 pm Post subject:

minormatt · Joined: 03 Aug 2015 Posts: 48

mattg · Joined: 09 Oct 2015 Posts: 3 Location: UK

Im in the UK, I think our trailer inspections are a bit more in depth than that. Does anyone have an old trailer that they have rebuilt? Was it easy to get it legal (for non-commercial use, like taking to shows), or were there problems because of a lack of manufacturers plate etc.?