rare find

[George McKenzie]

We had a 500 gallon fuel tank on a single axel trailer and were told to get a tandem trailer .I'll do some checking on this . I know we never see them any more on the road . To haul a carrier with duals it would be over width or you would have to put the carrier above the wheels .With tires big enough to carry the weight it would be a pretty unstable load .

[Bob McNeill]

Mongrel thing to load with a flat tyre, had 1/2 tyre off each side. the mud guard appear to have been army fitted. Once on the ground again all wheel nuts came off easily, big brake drum.

[Keith Webb]

Glad I don't have to remove those tyres!

[shaun]

with all those nuts hold the 2 peices of the rim together i would guess its an aluminum rim, i know the tyre size is 11.25 x 20 but could you get away with 12.00 x 20 - this size was used on Saladin armoured cars and late Saracen APC and they had aluminum rims as well. not to hard to find here in the UK. All depends on the ply rating of the originals.

[Keith Webb]

I think these are 14.00-20 as used on the AEC Matador.

Originally Posted by shaun

with all those nuts hold the 2 peices of the rim together i would guess its an aluminum rim, i know the tyre size is 11.25 x 20 but could you get away with 12.00 x 20 - this size was used on Saladin armoured cars and late Saracen APC and they had aluminum rims as well. not to hard to find here in the UK. All depends on the ply rating of the originals.

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Keith could be on to something,
Matador used 10.00 x 20 Rims, with 14.00- 20 tyres, steel and very heavy I would say.
What a fabulous trailer, great little (well, you know what I mean) project.
Rich.

[shaun]

in that case then 14.00 x 20 are fitted to Alvis Stalwarts with ally wheels.

[Euan McDonald]

Nice work Bob, looks like the recovery went to plan.

[Local Chap]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

I think these are 14.00-20 as used on the AEC Matador.

Not Matador wheels (not dished enough), and not Staghound either (wrong offset of centre) which also used 14.00-20.

Perhaps Scammell?

[Matthew Reid]

Originally Posted by George McKenzie

We had a 500 gallon fuel tank on a single axel trailer and were told to get a tandem trailer .I'll do some checking on this . I know we never see them any more on the road . To haul a carrier with duals it would be over width or you would have to put the carrier above the wheels .With tires big enough to carry the weight it would be a pretty unstable load .

Ya those figures were right off the Alberta Motor Vehicles Website in the regulations.

And the question is who told you. Police certainly do not always know the regs. We used to get flak for pulling the M101CDN Trailer behined the holiday trailer (Caravan for our brit friends) The Holiday trailer was NOT a 5th wheel but no where in the regs did it say the primary trailer had to be a 5 wheel. Now the regs have changed and they specifically state that the primary trailer must be a 5th wheel.

Alberta and Sask are the only provinces in the Country I belive that will let non Comercial vehicles double up trailers.

I think they may have asked you to get a tandem axel trailer cause you may have been over weight when the road bans are inplace in the spring.


Matthew

[George McKenzie]

I think it was that hauling a heavy load with singles and you had a flat tire you would loose control of your vehicle .