Wide track trailer

[Robin Craig]

So,

don't ask me as another forum member did, why I specifically bought it but I did.

Maybe if I saved it getting hacked about anymore then I will either sell it on or use it myself.

These little British trailers are absolute gems and differ from the smaller CF ones in that they are movable by hand on a reasonable surface with incredible ease.

Many call them a Sankey trailer but that is a generalisation.

There is a duck board for the floor and a cover for the top that went with them.

At least it is saved now.

Here is a link to an informative article about the whole family of trailers http://www.emlra.org/index.php/articles/sankey-trailers

[Ed Storey]

Nice find, is it ex-BATUS?

[Ed Storey]

Here is an image taken in CFB Wainwright during RV83.

[Robin Craig]

Dear Ed and ensemble,

The extreme left of picture in your shot show some kind either narrow or wide track and one of them (3rd from left) has the water tank insert so I am thinking it is a wide track.

The other on the right are the older series of bigger trailers from the days of the Bedford RL and other vehicles of that era, Humber pigs etc. They were made with a rounded fender outside the tub of the trailer where the wide track and narrow track has the tub out flush or slightly past the wheels.

Those ones were made mostly by Rubery Owen I think you will find. The Australians also ended up with them.

Mine is, as you suspected, is ex BATUS by way of the fellow in Hudson PQ who cornered the market at this end of the country.

I have been watching it on Kijiji for a while and sloped off to the Bank Street end of your parish yesterday escaping the banana belt on the the ST. Lawrence for the chills of the National Capital area.

The price had come down from the original asking amount when it first went up but even then I did not pay the asking because of all the bits missing. I think they were tired of it and glad someone was prepared to pay money on a cold day. they wee doing no other business in the used car trade as far as I could tell.

[Ed Storey]

Here is another image from RV83.

[Robin Craig]

That Ed is actually quite an interesting picture, once again proving what I have said which is take pictures, lots of them, all the time, because what is mundane now will not be so very soon.

The rear side markings relate to the trailer being drawn from stocks at a depot, the single line at the rear bottom relates to "IRR PAINT" being applied.

The tyre pressure is not unusual but the markers behind and close to the water mark further forward are different.

The name VANCOUVER indicates that it either came in or will be leaving on a move most likely through that port.

I can not quite see the numbers above, maybe you can share them?

It is an early wide track by all details I see.

Thank you

[Ed Storey]

Robin, here you go.

ED

[Robin Craig]

That is great Ed.

May I post that clearer image elsewhere to share it for some decoding? Its outside what I know.

[Ed Storey]

Sure, share away.

ED