Norbury and Shelmore Traps

[Sonny Sixkiller 18]

Is anyone familiar with the Norbury or Shelmore Grey Squirrel Traps?  The Shelmore trap apparently is engineered with a trap door for dead squirrel removal... it also incorporates a gravity feeder.  Nevertheless, the traps are very similar to the Kania 2000.

Has anyone had experience with the Fuller Trap or Skinns Superior Trap?  Or VS tube trap?

All the best,

Sonny

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14 hours ago, Sonny Sixkiller said:

Is anyone familiar with the Norbury or Shelmore Grey Squirrel Traps?  The Shelmore trap apparently is engineered with a trap door for dead squirrel removal... it also incorporates a gravity feeder.  Nevertheless, the traps are very similar to the Kania 2000.

Has anyone had experience with the Fuller Trap or Skinns Superior Trap?  Or VS tube trap?

All the best,

Sonny

There were a few second hand Norbury and Shelmore traps for sale recently.  They looked like Kania 2000s and 2500s that had been heavily modified with elaborate  tunnels and self feeding bait hoppers . They looked a bit like a case of over-engineering  for engineering sake.

As you say ,  one version  had a trap door to let dead squirrels fall to the ground.  Not quite sure how they managed that . Perhaps the  base of the trap was cut out  so the  killing arm pushed the victim onto the trap door instead of the original metal floor .

I suppose that would allow  other squirrels to feed from the trap with confidence until it was reset.

The Fuller box traps were made by a company in my town . They made various  cages and garden products.  I've held one ,crude but effective  ,l didn't  mess about with it. Bait was in a metal box and a flat plate powered by a very strong spring came down on the victim at an angle.

I once tried on behalf of a trap collecting friend to find out more but the company moved  and shut down .   A local estate machinery business by the same name still trades in my town but they denied a connection. 

 

[Sonny Sixkiller 18]

Approved in 1957,  the Fuller Garden Spring Trap was engineered and built by Fuller Industries   Three Trees, Loxwood Road, Bucks Green, Sussex.

[comanche 3,077]

On 24/02/2025 at 17:44, Sonny Sixkiller said:

Approved in 1957,  the Fuller Garden Spring Trap was engineered and built by Fuller Industries   Three Trees, Loxwood Road, Bucks Green, Sussex.

Sorry for the delay. I know l have some pictures  and literature  relating to Fuller's but they are probably in the loft  .    I lived a couple of hundred yards from the  workshop for a while. 

The company moved to Worthing ..