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1pound · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 10

Hello there,
Its a long shot but I thought I'd see if you can possibly help
me. I have been given a home made trailer with no wheels! It has been made out of vintage car parts and nobody knows anything about its origin.

I have been searching for some time and getting nowhere looking for a stud mounted 3 hole wheel of unknown hub of vintage.

So I need to identify the three stud mounting, the PCD is 120mm or 4 3/4" and from stud centre to stud centre measures about 105mm
and the bore in the middle would be around 60.3mm or 2 3/8".

Thanks for any suggestions you can provide.

Dan

* OKAY I've put up a new post to identify the axle with photos - probably a better way to go Smile

welder · Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 265 Location: North Warwickshire

Dan, I stand to be corrected but I have an idea that the Citroen 2CV had such an arrangement.

Ian

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Have you Googled > 3 stud wheels <
Thousandds of sites for such including trailer sites.

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

that should be thousands
can't access the edit key as it's off page

1pound · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 10

1pound · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 10

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

There is a thread with regards three stud wheels somewhere else on the forum.
My DLM front wheels are three stud, 1935 Standard 9. got a photo with measurements on it somewhere
The DLM is often mistaken for an Austin 7 special because of the three stud front hubs.

Hillman had three stud as well
Morris also.
Is the axle one piece if so a photo might help.

I presume you have the hubs, silly question I know, but even a photo of the hubs and back plates might jog some grey cells.

1pound · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 10

Ashley · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 1426 Location: Near Stroud, Glos

My mother had a post war Standard 8 and I well remember one of it's wheels flying off across an adjoining field. We collected it, put it with the car and someone offered us a lift home. Shortly after we arrived the RAC man turned up to tell us he'd put the wheel back on. Apparently he kept a stock of wheel nuts for Standard 8s because there were only three and they often came off.

My mum clung to box, it was an ES2 with a box sidecar he took her to get it.

Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Got three stud wheels on the DLM.
Not fallen off yet in 55 years.

Seen HGV wheels with 10 studs fall of a few times.

Keith D · Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 12:48 pm Post subject:

Dan,

Just been out in my workshop with your dimensions for a 3 stud wheel. Everything seems to match for a mid/late 1920's Morris Cowley wheel. These are Dunlop pressed steel artillery spoked wheels.

The tyre size is 4.50 x 19 or 5.00 x 19 which gives an overall diameter of around 30" (Clearance required for mudguards)

(nb, Morris COWLEY, not Morris OXFORD which uses a five stud wheel.)

Keith

1pound · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 10

Keith D · Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:30 am Post subject:

Dan,

The first two photos are definitely mid/late twenties Morris Cowley. Mine is 1928 and they're the same.

Keith

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22780 Location: UK

There seem to be a few trailers knocking about that are based on Cowley axles, they pop up on ebay from time to time. I suppose it makes sense given how numerous the cars were at the time.

I chucked away a Cowley wheel only a couple of weeks ago, it was rotted through mind so wouldn't have been any use Smile

RJ
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1pound · Joined: 06 Oct 2014 Posts: 10