Freight car hand brakes - 5
16. Miner 22-inch model
D3279 – from 1936 to the
‘50s.
17. Peacock model 320 –
throughout the 1930s
18. Peacock – late 1930s to
early ‘50s.
16
17
18
featured a scalloped pattern with six spiral spokes and 18 small
openings in the rim. For customers preferring a 22-inch wheel,
Miner offered model D3279 in 1936 (16). The design of the
D3279 looked much like the standardized wheels that would not
appear for another 20 years.
Peacock and Champion – National Brake Co., purchased the
Champion brand in the early 1950s.
Peacock’s model 320 malleable iron wheel first appeared in the
early 1930s (17). It was similar to Jemco’s (10) except the spokes
were in a spiral pattern. Beginning in the late 1930s and con-
tinuing through the end of the 1940s, Peacock offered a 22-inch
wheel with five straight, slender spokes and distinctive anti-slip
finger grips on the inside edge of the rim (18).
MRH-Feb 2013
