RAF flatbed and drop-side trailers

[oldgit]

Chaps,

Does anyone know if the R.A.F. used single and twin axle flatbed or drop-side trailers during WW2 of a size that could be towed behind a typical Tractor such as the Fordson Type N. If they did, can anyone please recommend a likely kit in 1/76^th scale?

Thanks everyone,

Tim

[Okdoky]

Balloon trailer http://www.17balloons.co.uk/pages/page-05.html

Chance Light http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chance_light_at_RAF_Pocklington_WWII_IWM_CH_6695.jpg

Brockhouse trailer http://www.network54.com/Forum/180748/thread/1071628191/Brockhouse+trailers

Edited January 20, 2015 by Okdoky

[Graham Boak]

The RAF certainly used a lot of trailers, but I know of no good source that describes them. You'll find the best, but very limited, mention in books such as Robertson's RAF Vehicles and Freathy's British Military Trucks (not specifically RAF, but check through the book for ones in use). The RAF did use a lot of Eagle trailers, such as the one shown in the link above for hydrogen cylinders..

Kits of trailers are produced by Belcher Bits and Flightpath, though from memory these are all bomb trailers. Milicast does have a 4-wheeled GS bodied-trailer for converting the Airfix Bedford GL to a tractor, but this perhaps rather big for a Fordson. It might be worth checking the catalogues of MMS Models and Matador models, although I can't think of anything offhand.