utility trailers of the era

[tubman]

When I was kid (in the '40's), my dad built a trailer. The frame was almost entirely Model "T" Ford. He used the front half of the frame and the front axle (complete with wood-spoke wheels). The frame was bent in and came to a point where the hitch was welded on. The box was about 4X6 and made out of wooden planks with 2X4 framing. Back in those days, a lot of folks had little one-wheel trailers that attached to the rear bumper on two places. When I tried to find a picture of one of these, they were ALL behind Volkswagens. (It must be a cult thing these days). My dad made fun of those guys, because he had a "real trailer". I remember that he had to change to some disk wheels after one of his wood spokes "went south" under a heavy load. He bitched for years that those wheels "cost more than the whole damn trailer".