Don,
According to the kit documentation, these carts were used to unload fish from boats docked at the Boston fish piers. If you look closely and enlarge the instruction sheet in my first photo, it includes an image of a market with large fish carts. The length of the vendor cart in my last photo is exactly the same as the fish cart model (6 feet), although the new model is wider (3-1/2 feet) than the vendor cart (2-1/2 feet). The wheels are 6 feet in diameter and therefore the cart sits high. I agree that the model is not realistic on my layout and the scaling may be open to question, although the kit is labelled as 1:48.
MELGAR
