Artillery Pattern Wheel

Overview

The artillery wheel was a nineteenth century and early-twentieth-century style of wagon, gun carriage, and automobile wheel. Rather than having spokes mortised into a wooden nave (hub), it has them fitted together in a keystone fashion bolted into a two-piece metal nave. The design evolved over the nineteenth and early twentieth century, and was ultimately imitated in drawn steel for auto wheels

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cwa-org-32-99.153
Contextual Information

The Museum’s 15 Pounder field gun, and World War 1 GS Wagon have this pattern of wheel. The Ford Model T used wooden spoked artillery pattern wheels until 1926.. With mechanization, large numbers of these wheels became available and the gun carriages at the Queen Victoria Memorial in Kings Park were fitted with these wheels in the 1920s to replace original wooden hubbed wheels.

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Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

Australian Army Museum of Western Australia

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Artillery pattern wheel
Artillery Pattern Wheel - World War 1

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