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Bumping this just to see if anyone's ever seen another one of these around. I never heard anything back from the manufacturer.
It's been hard at work sitting in the lean-to with a jeep trailer on it for winter storage.
The trailer was a really good deal, and right in town too. The seller even delivered it for free since we didn’t haggle. The tires do look pretty good for 100 years old! I really think that after checking the hubs this could still be used in a farm or similar application as it sits (of course...
I might have to check with organizations like that to find put more about it. I don’t think they were actually used in the war, I suspect they were ordered because of the war and never used (probably too late to need them) Based on newspaper ads there were some big surplus auctions in the US...
So a quick search of that newspaper archive site showed ads based upon the one in the original post started showing up in California newspapers around October of 1921. Prices were $275 then eventually $200.
It looks like an earlier ad with a different picture showed up in a Davenport, Iowa...
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