In had one of those trailers: got the bones of it from Billy Drew in Mt Alexander Road, Pascoe Vale (?). I used it as the base for a high-sided box trailer, which is still being towed around the Yass area somewhere (fitted with 7.50x16 tyres on the original wheels, and 700x16 on Toyota Hi Lux wheels, which have the same stud pattern).
A couple of points from memory, as I stripped the badly rusted bodywork from it so I remember something of what it looked like.
Chassis: is an "A" shape from the rear corners where the props are in the image, to the apex (towing eye) point. There are outriggers on the A frame to mount the axle springs.
The prop visible in the rear corner: there was one at each corner and one about a foot back from the apex on the right side. The prop mounts were brass/bronze, and were intwo halves, held together with a bolt on one side, and a threaded rod bent into a handle on the other. The prop feet were not flat, but slightly dome shaped, and about 6 inches across. Ros was probably 1.5 inches in diameter (these are guess-timates!) The top was flat and much smaller, maybe 3 inches across.
Bodywork, front: the two long boxes along each side are open topped, with flat steel U shaped stirrups to hold the pick-up lines (visible in the image). These two boxes end in square ends. Across the front of the trailer was a flat sheet steel wall, with a half-round locker in front of it. The locker had a hinged lid (hinged along the straight side). The width of the locker was the distance between the boxes: it did not extend across the front of the two boxes.
Towing hitch/eye was mounted above the chassis (like the No.4 jeep trailer).
As Rick said, Chev tyres and car-type wheels. The bearings were really strange: glad mine never had to be replaced. I just took them apart (they were not a closed cage type, but all loose balls with an inner and outer), cleaned them, greased them, and left it at that. Never gave me any trouble, and I used the trailer for thousands of miles of field work for years. I towed it behind a Hi Lux, hence the second set of tyres on Hi Lux rims, which gave me more spares if needed.
Hope this helps.
Mike C
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