AA WHEEL QUESTION

[bob trevan]

Can someone tell me why my AA truck has no sections [scolloped out] of the wheels like other AA trucks i see.

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[Drew Mashburn]

Bob:

Is that an old postcard? Pretty cool photo! Running in the mud like that, I would think a solid wheel would be best. Mud would catch and hold on the scalloped holes.

-- Drew

[Brady]

Photo looks to be Australian - notice the radius arms connection to the frame, on the rear end. Someone posted photos of a truck awhile back with a similar set-up. The rear end is non-Ford, so the wheels were specific to it, and fit the Ford front end. Notice the huge eucalyptus log, and the "wrong-side" steering wheel. Search the previous posts for the photos - very interesting.

[Bob C]

Looks like it is a Canadian built right hand drive truck. Some of them hand wood or solid disc wheels,
They also had a Timken rear axle with open driveline.

Bob

[SHELBY MESSER]

may also be an early '30? look at splash apron at rear wheel (spuare ) not rounded. Shelby, Louisiana.

[Warpspeed]

Here is a link to the pictures I took of my very similar Australian chassis:
As previously said, Right Hand Drive, so most likely an Oz picture rather than Canadian.
That tree in the background looks more like a typical warm and very dry climate Australian tree, and the log on the truck looks like some really serious hardwood.
http://forums.aa-fords.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=3333

[bob trevan]

This 2012 picture is as it is now --just some 84yrs after it was delivered new [back in 1928] by my FORD DEALER father [Refer TREVAN FORD HISTORY] . The truck was sold new with those wheels together with it's TIMKEN DIFF and WARFORD under-drive g,box.It has had a heavy duty front axel assembly fitted at some stage as i was told it had a habit of breaking spindles and splitting in half the warford boxes when working hard in the Australian bush . I also have a picture taken with two logs as big as the one shown in the original picture together with a many pictures taken as it was extracted from it's many years in it,s retirement shed.

[bob trevan]

Pictured is an AUSTRALIAN postal delivery van

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[Warpspeed]

Those wheels look larger than the slotted type, or am I imagining it ?

[bob trevan]

Re, tyre size ---My logging truck has 700x20 on the front ---with one 750x20 and one 6x22 [metric] on the rear.

[TomH]

Welcome Bob,
What country are you in? Do you have a VIN? That might help to answer your question.
Best of luck with your truck
Tom H

[bob trevan]

HI Tom,
The engine number of my truck is CAA 71022 .
SORRY ---I don't think there would be any rear guards down here for your vehicle as most ever AA would have come into AUSTRALIA from CANADA less body . This was because the big difference in import duty amount on bodied to body less vehicles.

[spectria]

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Is that "Air Mail"???
Get it, breezy???

I Kill my self sometimes!

[bob trevan]

Hi Mike, I will see what i can do for you. BOB T