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Old defense forces Gun carriage wheels?

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  • 04-06-2012 7:18pm
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    Run_to_da_hills
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    Dose any one know whet these are off?

    They are similar to BSA M20 motorcycle front wheel but have a bronze bush and axle with some kind of a large coarse thread butterfly nut


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    goldie fish
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    "Pram" wheels.
    Anti tank guns in the past had a "pram" a two wheeled cart which carried ammo etc when the gun was introduced in the 50s. The idea being you could drag the whole thing out of the back of a land rover, and leg it to the firing point.

    In later years they were used to bring turf from the main store to the billets.


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    Run_to_da_hills
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    goldie fish wrote: »
    "Pram" wheels.
    Anti tank guns in the past had a "pram" a two wheeled cart which carried ammo etc when the gun was introduced in the 50s. The idea being you could drag the whole thing out of the back of a land rover, and leg it to the firing point.

    In later years they were used to bring turf from the main store to the billets.

    Cheers, they are up on adverts.

    http://www.adverts.ie/motorbike-parts-accessories/bsa-m20-front-wheels-military-gun-carriage/1717928


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