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Delivery Wagon Used by Wayne Creamery until 1962

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Artifact Overview

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 noise made by the metal tires during the wagon's early morning rounds. Wayne Creamery relied on horse-powered deliveries until 1962.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Subject Date

1947-1962

Location

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