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I wonder what sort of arrangement this T used to run an air compressor. Maybe it was a homemade setup or?? Looks like it runs off the rear axle somehow. Maybe it was engaged someway.

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It's got some sort of pulley or sprocket on the left rear wheel to run the compressor. I'd guess it's a pulley for a link belt, which he may have slipped off and on as needed. That would require jacking up the wheel, unless he had some kind of "dog" or other arrangement to allow the axle and pulley to run independent of the wheel. I can't read what it says across the bottom of the picture, which may have been taken in Breckenridge, Texas. I know that some early businesses had similar phone numbers, and East Walker Street has a hill very much like what the picture shows, and there has been a gas station/garage near the top of it for as long as I can remember. Looking down the hill, there is something that could be a wooden oil derrick. All of that would be consistent with Breckenridge in the 1920s.

A slightly clearer version is on a past discussion when Stan Howe (RIP) posted it.
http://www.mtfca.com/discus/messages/82 ... 1544817337

It’s such a cool truck and great to see it again.

Could the tank hold enough pressure where the belt only needs to be connected occasionally along with some sort of pressure relief?

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Here is a clearer picture of it. "Road service Car Built by Leo Conner Breckenridge, Texas 1926"