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Reply to "Weekend tinplate photos 📸 and videos 📽 8/16/19!"

Chris Lonero posted:

Let’s see your tinplate! 

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Chris, this is an interesting photo... it reminded me of a picture that I have of my paternal grandfather.  It was taken in 1921 in Osnabrock, North Dakota.  Grandpa had just started working for a farm equipment dealer, and is getting paid.  Grandpa is facing the camera, and the man in the bowler hat is his boss.  Of course, in my photo, the tractor (a Wallis, I believe) is loaded on a four-wheel wagon behind the flatbed truck, and it appears the truck is carrying a plow.  Note the hard rubber tires on the truck, as well as the unpaved street.  In this day and age, where we have amazing trucks and equipment to carry machinery, it is fun to look back and see how much used to be done with such light equipment...

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(In light of the copyright problems the forum has experienced lately, I want to state for the record that this picture belongs to our family and I do have the right to post it here).

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