Searching for period hitch

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael Mullis on Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 02:16 pm:

I keep trying to post a "want ad" but keep getting:

Internal Server Error


I have tried numerous times over the past few months with the same error every time.

By the way, Im looking for a period manufactured hitch for a T. I am building a period camper and want the build to be as correct as possible.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Chris Brancaccio - Calgary Alberta on Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 02:34 pm:

Michael, there have been 7 ads posted today, July 12th. Would you like me to post it for you? Any more details than above?

Chris


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Dena & Dennis Gorder on Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 02:35 pm:

I have a hitch that attaches to the same bolts that attach your rear spring to the frame. Let me know your email and I will send you a photo.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jeff V on Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 02:35 pm:

Most of the period trailers and hitches I've run across have been hole and pin style (like you would use on a lawn mower to pull a little garden trailer) that I really wouldn't trust on the road. I'm not sure when ball style hitches came into wise use (40's maybe?), but I'm not sure you really want to be 'that' period correct. Especially on a camper. You might look for something from the '50's that would be safer than something from the '20's yet still have sort of a vintage look (I have a ball type hitch on a '50's trailer that I consider perfectly safe, but still looks a little wierd to a modern person who's only seen modern stuff.)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Page on Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 05:37 pm:

Here is a Forum Google Search link for Trailer hitches. There are some very interesting hitches that are period correct.
Regards, John


http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&biw=1024&bih=681&as_st=y&sa=1&q =site:http://www.mtfca.com/discus/&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&tbm=isch#um=1& hl=en&safe=off&as_st=y&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=site:http://www.mtfca.com/discus/+++++Tra iler+Hitch&oq=site:http://www.mtfca.com/discus/+++++Trailer+Hitch&gs_l=img.12... 2218.11005.1.13579.19.14.0.5.0.1.1412.4743.7-4.4.0...0.0.Czf9N7GpNhg&pbx=1&bav=o n.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=75138df85ffb9cc0&biw=1287&bih=834


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael Mullis on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 05:10 pm:

Chris thanks but what I really need is to figure out why I can't post. I am going to try again later.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jeff V on Friday, July 13, 2012 - 07:52 pm:

Because your question got me thinking, the first forged ball and socket hitch was developed sometime after 1919 according to this:

http://www.trailerhitchuniverse.com/blog/2007/01/10/a-little-trailer-hitch-histo ry/

so would probably be around, but rare in the 20's but maybe common by the '30's...


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Michael Mullis on Tuesday, July 17, 2012 - 12:46 am:

bump


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Howard D. Dennis on Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 09:41 pm:

Is this anything you could use?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/110919950079?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m142 3.l2649


Howard Dennis


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