Staghound Tires/Rim

[Robin Craig]

Staghound forestry equipment, any links to anything on that subject on here or elsewhere?

[Robin Craig]

Rob from what I recall the RCD Staghound has something ex Cf as tires on it.

[David Dunlop]

Hi Rob.

I cannot recall the name of the company, but it was based in Vancouver I think. The vast majority of Canadian based, serviceable Staghounds ended up there for conversion and the products sold throughout BC and possibly even down into Washington and Oregon.

Lots of photos of the converted products on a thread somewhere on MLU a few years ago.

David

[rob love]

Originally Posted by Robin Craig

Rob from what I recall the RCD Staghound has something ex Cf as tires on it.

I was looking at some of the wheels on ebay, and the MRAP wheels look pretty close. But I didn't go to all the trouble of sourcing original non-directional tires so I could put them on modern MRAP wheels.



Something tells me these Staghound rims would have been used on other heavy US produced vehicles as well. I had a look at some photos of the M1 155 towed howitzer as Adrian suggested, and they do look like the ones.


I just did a search and found I missed a batch by about 10 years. Some of the viewers mentioned they would also be on the 155 and the M21 ammunition trailer. I found an online manual for the M21 trailer, and the diagram for the rim gives a part number of G134-03-69730. G134 is the ordnance code for the Staghound, so at this point I am going to say the Staghound was the primary user of these rims, with the 155 towed and the M21 ammo trailer also using them.