I believe these vehicles were used during the early days of the Great Depression. Times were tough everywhere, and farmers really got hit hard economically. If you had a broken headlight you let it stay that way; any spare money was for medicine, rent, etc.
People didn't drive much at night anyway, usually just to go visit with the neighbors and you could see well enuf by moonlight.
Those people didn't haul their hogs in crates on the running boards for fun....they could not afford a pickup truck. Notice one trailer looks like an old buggy...you made do with what you had.
Today most of us have little idea what it was like to be so poor and desparate, just trying to make it thru each day. I'm 76 and my dad never got over that experience and used and re-used things all his life. I just hate the way we have to throw things away because of the difficulty of fixing plastic junk. LA in WI
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