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unknown in Roadways, Short Movie, 1937 IMDB

Class: Trucks, Simple truck — Model origin: UK

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Position 00:06:08 [*][*] Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

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dsl SX

2016-04-29 22:36

Pushed slowly across for a few seconds.

nzcarnerd NZ

2016-05-01 22:48

I guess one of the many thousands of trucks left over from WW1 which were rebuilt and sold on to operators in the UK. If this was shot in the 1930s maybe it is one that has already had its second life and is being scrapped? It would be interesting to know when regulation changes forced solid tyred trucks off the road. They were limited to 12 mph anyway.

-- Last edit: 2016-05-01 22:49:54

Sunbar UK

2016-05-04 11:31

January 1933.

Solid tyres were no longer legal for the majority of road usage in the UK. Tractor-trailer units and some local-use (refuse collector type vehicles) had some allowances for continued use but all other trucks, vans and cars had to have pneumatic tyres. Heavy tractor-trailers (I guess of the Scammell type) were allowed to have 'rubber' tyres in addition to, or in place, of pneumatics.

Link to "archive.commercialmotor.com"

dsl SX

2016-05-05 00:19

Is the older Maudslay still solid tyred??

johnfromstaffs EN

2016-05-05 08:00

My reading of the construction and use regulations from the 1933 act is that solid (rubber) tyres were permitted on existing heavy motor cars built before 1933, until 1940, presumably to give the operator chance to wear the vehicles out. IIRC, "a heavy motor car" included vehicles smaller than the Scammell, so the Maudslay in question, with its solid tyres still fitted in the film, would have been usable on the road, albeit at 12mph. There must have been a loophole somewhere for traction engines, in that they have a different classification, ie tractor. The regs also appear to consider solid rubber tyres as "soft", presumably as opposed to iron tyres possibly found on old trailers.

Solid rubber tyres are still fitted to fork trucks and to tank wheels, so provided a mould exists, or you can afford to get one made, you can get your tank wheel, or the wheels on your preserved AEC K-type, re-rubbered. A high proportion of the NS-type buses ran on solid tyres until the Metropolitan Police relaxed its specifications, when conversion to pneumatic tyres was done. One of my tasks when at work was the management of supply contracts for wheels for various tanks, the rubbering process being done by BTR Silvertown, (by then located in Burton on Trent) or by Avon Rubber at Melksham.

-- Last edit: 2016-05-05 12:40:04

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