My Mom's the bomb

[Scepter]

My Grandfather giving my Mom a ride in his home made bike trailer. The pic is from around 1950. The story is that grandfather made it out of a bomb casing. It looks more like a drop tank to me. Grandpa lived in Schievening, Holland. He served in the Dutch army before the Germans came and survived the war by hiding. After the war he would go to the German bunkers and find cool stuff like artillery shell casings and such.
Can anyone idenify what my Mom is riding in?

[gregv]

If it was a bomb casing that would make for one heavy trailer....perhaps a wooden tank similar to those used on Mosquitos (looks too small though) or maybe a section of one of those resin-impregnated paper tanks that were used on P-47's and P-51's?

interesting pic & story!

cheers

greg v.

[tom d. friedman]

drop tank?? no way, to small. the av gas would be gone in minutes. practice bomb??... doubtful, too tear dropped shaped. radio direction finder football cover??.... possibly, but it must have been pretty big??

[Paul Patist]

Makes me think of a 75 gallon tank...It was a sport for Dutch kids in those days to make even boats out of those droptanks !
Scepter, the place you're Grandfather lived is Scheveningen at the coast near The Hague.

Paul

[gliderman1]

"resin-impregnated paper tanks that were used on P-47's and P-51's?"

Gregv,

Can you tell me more about these tanks?
Where were the tanks made?
What was the resin? Phenol?
Anything of the detail?

[Paul Patist]

http://www.armyairforces.com/forum/m_106961/tm.htm

[Paul Patist]

http://www.armyairforces.com/forum/m_106961/tm.htm

[Swiss Mustangs]

"resin-impregnated paper tanks that were used on P-47's and P-51's?"

Can you tell me more about these tanks?
Where were the tanks made?
What was the resin? Phenol?
Anything of the detail?

I also tend to think of a 75 gallon dropank.

Martin

[Swiss Mustangs]