Guest Voogd Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 L.S.I am working on a publication about the archaeological stuff found in a filled in canal in Amsterdam (Netherlands). At the moment we're focussing on the automobile finds. One of them is a Ford-wheel. Propably out ot the twenties. Is there someone who knows to what Ford model it belonged. And in what year these type of wheels were produced. AACA-member Sambarn thought it was a '29-'31 Model A wood (artillery-style) wheel. But he of she wasn't quite sure (thanks! Sambarn). Fanta Voogd - Amsterdam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Certainly from a truck, but I don't recognize it. Model A Fords never had wooden wheels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dictator27 Posted March 5, 2014 Share Posted March 5, 2014 Not totally correct, John. Wood spoked wheels were definitely available on Canadian produced model AA trucks.Terry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlLaFong Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 I would have put money on, there were no wood wheeled Model "A"sI would have gone home, sadder and wiser. Now, I'm just wiser:)The wheels on this AA don't look like what the OP posted. They seem to be some sort of disc wheel that has rotted away, leaving just a remnant of the wheel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Voogd Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 I found newspaper articles about an accident on december 8th 1927 exactly at the location where the hub was found (in a canal). Two cabs hit each other badly and a wheel of one of the cars was torn off. I understood that Ford made special taxicabs. Could it have been a cab?Fanta Voogd - Amsterdam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Restorer32 Posted March 6, 2014 Share Posted March 6, 2014 I believe the Ford hubcap is on the wrong side of the hub. Where it is placed in the pic is actually a bearing race. Definitely a '28 AA cap and I suspect the remains of a steel perforated disc wheel or possibly a brake drum. The Ford cap is actually about 3 inches in diameter to give an idea of scale. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WTSHNN Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Fanta Voogd - Amster[ATTACH=CONFIG]237563[/ATTACH]damTry posting this on the Model T and Model A pages of the www.fordbarn.com-Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Voogd Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Thank you all! I send an e-mail to Mr. Neil Wilson of the AA Fords Club. He was positive that the cap belonged to a a 1928 AA truck (after March 1928). He wasn't sure about the hub. Meanwhile I found another newspaper article about a truck loosing its front wheel (and driving into the canal) at the location where the wheel was found (july 26th 1930). I'm trying to find out more about the accident in the police archives. Thanks again!Fanta Voogd - Amsterdam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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