Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Letting off steam
Welding a hub band
Drawknife in use
Welding a tyre
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Trimming the felloes
The hot tyre in place
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
A taper auger
Drawknife in use shaping
An example of the wheelwrights art
Trimming with a drawknife
Marking out a felloe
Cooling down
Spot welding
Cleaning up the weld
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Detail of the wheel
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Welding
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cleaning up the felloes
Cooling the tyre down
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Welding a hub band
Sawing off the spoke ends
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Shaping with a rasp
Wheel awaiting a tyre
A wheel in need of repair
Using a chipping hammer
Checking the tyre circumference
The first stage in shaping
A 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding the tyre joint
Views
/100
Copyright of the photographs is held by Steve R. Salter and the Tools and Trades History Society and the photographs here are watermarked accordingly. Higher resolution unwatermarked images are available on application to TATHS at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. but any use of them must include a reference to Steve R. Salter as copyright holder and to TATHS.
