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08-19-2009, 01:15 AM
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| Wooden Aircraft Wheels Ran across this photograph a while back, thought it was real interesting. Aparently, they were using wheels made of wood to move the P-51s around the North American facility in Inglewood while the aircraft was being assembled. When the aircraft was ready for tests, the regular wheels & tires were installed. This appears to be an early model P-51...
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08-19-2009, 01:26 AM
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  | Very interesting, but it does remind me of the Flintstones.
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08-19-2009, 01:48 AM
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| You just need Fred's feet coming through the bottom to get it moving.  Wheels
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08-19-2009, 09:39 AM
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| Makes sense though. I would imagine with metal shavings, rivets and other pieces that may find their way to the floor, using a wooden tire would keep the rubber ones from getting punctured. Rubber was an essential war material in those days.
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08-19-2009, 11:59 AM
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| Good idea, wasn't it ? .... I'm glad I thought of it ...  Charles
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08-19-2009, 03:43 PM
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 | Certainly a good idea but a very interesting one at that!
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08-19-2009, 04:53 PM
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| Now Ii never knew that, thanks Dave. Wood you think they wheely wood work??!! OK, I'll get me coat....
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08-19-2009, 05:12 PM
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| Are they BF Woodriches? I'll see myself out... |
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08-19-2009, 05:31 PM
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| Judging by the grain, I think they're Woodyear....ok, I get the message....
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08-19-2009, 08:59 PM
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| They kinda look like Tree-lleborg tires to me. Thank you, thank you. I'm here all night guys.....
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08-19-2009, 09:20 PM
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08-19-2009, 09:29 PM
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| Could it be a branch of Woodstone tyres? Oh my, it's hard to get to the root of things here...Sry...*ducks and runs* Fascinating find, though. 
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08-19-2009, 09:51 PM
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| Ok...sooooo... Then wooden tires really can't be "Fire Stones" then could they? Honestly, seeing these wheels makes me wonder just how many innovations were used that never got documented, or passed by the wayside after the war wound down. Unique things that you wouldn't give a second glance to with it sitting in a junk heap, but at some point was a very important component in the war production.
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08-19-2009, 09:58 PM
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| Great post GG  Really makes you think...MM |
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08-20-2009, 07:19 PM
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| It is a good post, and an intersting shot of a A36/P51A , with cannon, in RAF colours - fairly rare. As for other innovations, I vaguley recall my Dad telling me about the Italians using wooden bullets in North Africa. Now I'm sure this is throwing things wide open to such quips as 'splinter wounds', but apparently they were very effective, if not wholly accurate, and caused horrific wounds, due, no doubt, to their breakin-up partially on impact, a sort of 'frangible round'. I had read a little of these since being told, many, many years ago, and apparently they were 'ilegal' under the various International conventions of the time, being classed the same as the so called 'Dum Dum' rounds. So, from wooden wheels to a 'plastic' Spitfire (yes, there was one!), are there any other interesting pics like this?
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