Delivery Wagon Used by Wayne Creamery until 1962
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Wayne Creamery of Detroit, Michigan, used this horse-drawn wagon to deliver milk to its customers. The wagon's metal-tired wooden wheels were replaced with rubber automobile tires in the mid-1940s -- after residents in the delivery area complained about the noise made by the metal tires during the wagon's early-morning rounds. Wayne Creamery relied on horse-powered deliveries until 1962.
Wayne Creamery of Detroit, Michigan, used this horse-drawn wagon to deliver milk to its customers. The wagon's metal-tired wooden wheels were replaced with rubber automobile tires in the mid-1940s -- after residents in the delivery area complained about the noise made by the metal tires during the wagon's early-morning rounds. Wayne Creamery relied on horse-powered deliveries until 1962.
Artifact
Negative (Photograph)
Subject Date
1947-1962
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On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.N.B.69399
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 4 in
Width: 5 in
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