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Plowman
Plowman
Linn u can back trailer
Nov 3 2009, 10:21 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 3 2009, 10:21 PM EST
Rene, You mention there are 4 still surviving trailers. The black one in the photo that I bought on a visit with you. The nice almost perfect one that I have taken to a few shows. The one in the Norwich museum. What is the 4th? Daryl Do you find this valuable?    
ferrology
ferrology
1. RE: Linn u can back trailer
Nov 4 2009, 7:46 PM EST | Post edited: Nov 4 2009, 7:46 PM EST
Hubbard had two, the other he sold to his helper in the museum, Roger Ree of Milford, NY, who has about ten antique vehicles. Then there is Norman Gaulin of Tuxedo Park who has the first one I ever saw. My father saw one of Hubbard's for sale for $75 years ago but didn't buy it because it wouldn't hitch on the back of a VW bus. Gaulin's said "Ford & Smiley" on it and was hauled to the Hershey PA flea market by someone from Maine when he bought it. I was trying not to load up the site with too many similar photos and accidentally duplicated some in the album as it is. Ther emust be more of these out there but all the ones I have checked on turned out to be 1960's era ones from Montgomery Wards or similar with a regular caster wheel underneath. I see Louis Lombard later built one with pnuematic lift for loading barrels of potatoes into the back of trucks. Do you find this valuable?