Info needed: Trailer socket Humber one ton

[Richard.Moys]

Hi

Regarding your original question

The sockets are called Warner Sockets. Some trailers did have one fitted at the rear, and this is so that another trailer could be towed behind the first one and so on (More than would be a nightmare to reverse !). The British Army Warner plugs are made of rubber (see post 17 for photo) and do deteriorate with age, there is a similar US pattern that was used on some jeeps etc, these are moulded ‘plastic’ and can easily be rewired (I am pretty sure that they are interchangeable). My 1963 Rover8 has both Warner and standard 12pin Nato socket fitted.

Hope this helps
Richard

[Robert Sexton]

Thanks Richard, I had wondered if the drilled cross bar at the rear of the trailer was for another hitch as my trailer had the threaded piece to screw on the socket cap. I discarded the idea as not being practical, but subsequent pics and your confirmation proves otherwise.
The socket at the front of the trailer;was that used to connect to the towing vehicle via a piece with two male ends or did it have another purpose?
I have seen pics of trailers that look to have the connector permanently wired in as is with modern conventional trailer leads, if that was the norm then why the female socket on the trailer?
thanks for your help,
regards Robert.

[Richard.Moys]

Hi

Never seen a wired up socket on the front of a trailer before. I think that it is the stowage point for the towing cable as the contacts are exposed and not shhrouded in any way.

Have you seen this link http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread...khouse-trailer that show the drawings of your trailer. No rear trailer socket, which is standard.


With reference to my earlier post, I have seen a few with trailer sockets on the rear, but only a very few as it is not standard on any trailers that I know of. Just a thought has someone fitted the stowage socket to the rear of yours for some reason?

Cheers
Richard

[chrisgrove]

The link in the last post is most useful (though the drawings are of a 1/2 ton trailer and not a 1 ton). There are three pics (if you follow enough links and scroll down far enough) of the front of the 1 ton trailer (though an updated one compared to the one I am modelling - at least as far as the lights are concerned). None of these pics show a socket on the trailer. The cable appears to disappear into the chassis member that connects to the tow ring. But the pic also shows a clip, rather like the rifle holder clips in the cab, which holds the connector which plugs into the socket on the truck. The one I photographed a few years ago has one of those too, though fitted on the other side. I conclude there is no socket on the trailer, but the cable is permanently attached to the trailer wiring, and when under tow, the connector is unclipped from its holder and plugged into the truck socket.

My model will assume that anyway! Many thanks to all those who have posted such useful photos.

Chris

[Robert Sexton]

Hello all, attached is a pic of the 1 ton trailer with the female socket shown on the nearside draw bar. My trailer although a cargo body has the identical chassis.I am still uncertain if it had another use (cant think of one) it shows the threaded dummy to secure the cap (this was present on my trailer).
As can be seen the construction is quite different from the 1/2 ton although some of the components are the same.
Chris, the number plate holder and the convoy light are reasonably visible on the RH mudguard.
Robert

[Robert Sexton]

Sorry Illiterate computer operater at this end, Pic now loaded,
Robert.

[chrisgrove]

Yes. Nice pic Robert. But the pics on the other thread to which I referred - though a later updated version with the out riggers - do not show a cable socket like your pic. I am well aware that the trailers (well, mainly 3/4 ton) in my day had separate cables that connected to sockets on both the truck and the trailer, but I think the venerable 1 ton trailer had so many different lighting fits that all of us are probably right! Certainly a number of them had folding props at front and rear to keep the trailer horizontal when disconnected from the truck, as well as the jockey wheel at the front, but again, some of them didn't.
Chris