Can Anyone I.D. This Aluminum Hub?...Old Aftermarket Hot Rod?

...picked up this early tube frame with a dropped tube axle/long 4-bar/coil-over front suspension...can anyone I.D. the one-piece aluminum hub/brake rotor? No markings other than a, "DH-10", cast into the inside of the back of the hub, rotors are 10" dia., no calipers, looks to be early Ford spindle(?)...thanks

 

Spindles are 32-36 style (hard to tell exactly without better pics). And an aluminum disc sounds like an accident waiting to happen. How could that withstand the friction of the pads? Never heard of ANY use of such a thing.

 

cool hubs

 

I saw it done one time on a drag race motorcycle to save weight - worked awful.

 

Maybe it was for limited use in racing, along the lines of an aluminum flywheel that is for use with "organic" clutch discs only.

 

Might be an old Strange Engineering drag race system. Some old class rules required 4 wheel brakes, but some guys would plug the lines so they never really functioned, but met the rule.

 

Aluminum rotors can stand up to quite a bit of abuse. Wilwood makes aluminum racing rotors, they wouldn't sell if they could not "take the heat".

That rotor/hub actually looks a lot like a trailer disc brake conversion kit.

 

Yeah, I thought they were the early '32-'36 spindles...the trailer brake conversion thought is interesting, never thought of that...there were no calipers or caliper brackets, but, it doesn't look like it will be too hard to fab and adapt...

...there was no rear suspension or rearend, just frame rails, but it also came with an old T-bucket body...maybe an old altered project that never got finished?