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- Delivery Wagon Used by Wayne Creamery 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 noise made by the metal tires during the wagon's early morning rounds. Wayne Creamery relied on horse-powered deliveries until 1962.
- 1947-1962
- Collections - Artifact
Delivery Wagon Used by Wayne Creamery 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 noise made by the metal tires during the wagon's early morning rounds. Wayne Creamery relied on horse-powered deliveries until 1962.