10-cwt Brantford Coach Trailer eBay

[Bob Carriere]

.... must have been a bitch to unload.

Grant showed me the shop manual for your trailer......real nice.

The big challenge will be to either find the parts for the lunette or fabricate your own from steel plate,,,tubing and lots of welding and grinding......enough to be usable and safe and pass a 36 in. inspection.

Good luck, keep us posted and don't be afraid to ask for help.

Bob

[Rillette]

I was also a bit afraid of the unloading. We used long lenghts of 2 x 10 to slide it down, turn it around and gently flip it back upright. It actually went pretty smoothly, but you're right, it's sure heavier than it looks.

If you have a direct line to Grant, please let me know, because I've tried email through MLU and PM to contact him for the manuals but without success and I would really love to obtain them before doing anything. I think that they are manuals SB-8 and SB-8A.

For the lunette, I'm optimistic in life, so I'm not giving up hope of finding the missing bits! The support rails shouldn't be much of a problem to fabricate if I can find the correct profile of U channel. There's also the option of casting new parts if I can find originals to copy from.

Thanks for the offer of help, I will probably take you up on it as I'm sure I'll need quite a bit of support!

Cheers,
François

[rob love]

I think Colin McGregor-Stevens used to have a spare of that hitch.

[r.morrison]

Is this the photo you're looking for? Robert

[Bob Carriere]

.... and send it to Francois......collect !!!! or get the spare one to replicate.

Bingo Sir Robert


Bob

[Rillette]

Hi Rob, thank you very much! I will get in touch with him to find out.

Hi Robert, Yes! That's exactly what I'm looking for. What kind of trailer is this picture of? The body looks larger than that of the 10cwt.

Thanks again to both of you!

Cheers,
François

[chris vickery]

A one-off sand casting is not too hard to obtain. A local foundry may take an interest in such a replication.
My local car club had emblem plaques cast from aluminum back in the 60's and one of our members found an original and wanted to recreate these nostalgic items. They were about a pound of aluminum 4 x 6 x 1/2" thick and quite inticate. A local place made molds and cast us up about a dozen of these for $20 a piece. I am sure the mold for a lunette and the casting would be fairly reasonable. It would be the machining that might cost you as the casting would likely require turning to fit correctly into the bushing blocks.
The bushing blocks could be cast up easily as well.

[rob love]

I wouldn't bet on lunnette parts being cheap to cast. Just the liability alone should turn many foundries off to the project.