aircraft wheel: need ID

[sapper740]

Originally Posted by Hanno Spoelstra

This aircraft (tail)wheel was recently dredged from the North Sea by a fisherman.

Can anyone identify the type of aircraft it was orginally attached to?

Thanks,
Hanno

A little difficult to grasp the size of this tailwheel with nothing beside it for scale, but from it's apparent size this would have come from a large a.c. most likely a bomber.
Derek.

[Grant Bowker]

The tail wheel is not/not from a Mosquito unless my reference sources are wrong.
Tires of this profile were usually tail wheels, usually mid to large sized aircraft (up to Lancaster size). Most British single seat fighters seem to have had tires of round section rather than the twin rib type, but some American single seaters used tires shaped like these (e.g P51 and P47, but the structure attached is wrong for them). I don't recall having seen this profile on German aircraft but.....

[Alex Blair (RIP)]

The oleo leg is a full fork design ,which may be the best way to identify the wheel assembly...

[Brian Gough]

An aviation friend of mine says it may be from a Bristol "Blenheim" light bomber.


Brian

[Snowtractor]

Originally Posted by sapper740

A little difficult to grasp the size of this tailwheel with nothing beside it for scale, but from it's apparent size this would have come from a large a.c. most likely a bomber.
Derek.

The tire in the background looks to be about a 235/75 15 or 16" , if this is true they are about 30-31" tall. That puts the aircraft wheel about 16-18" at a guess.
Also , though likely WWII , don't forget civilian stuff.
Sean

[Geoff Winnington-Ball (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Snowtractor

The tire in the background looks to be about a 235/75 15 or 16" , if this is true they are about 30-31" tall. That puts the aircraft wheel about 16-18" at a guess.
Also , though likely WWII , don't forget civilian stuff.
Sean

Actually, I was thinking it looked more like the front wheel off your Big Wheels, Sean... have you been someplace you shouldn't have been?

[Snowtractor]

Originally Posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball

Actually, I was thinking it looked more like the front wheel off your Big Wheels, Sean... have you been someplace you shouldn't have been?

Indubitably My dear Watson