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Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:11 pm
by John kuehn
Here’s a Touring that’s a trailer. Sort of!
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 1:21 pm
by Norman Kling
I guess by today the horse is gone and the kids very old or gone on too. But I feel sorry for that horse. Looks like it is tied in both in front and in back.
Norm
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 2:59 pm
by JohnM
At 20 horsepower. a T could use all the help it can get!
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:01 pm
by Jerry VanOoteghem
It's kinda like a ship carrying a lifeboat.
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:05 pm
by JohnM
Jerry VanOoteghem wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:01 pm
It's kinda like a ship carrying a lifeboat.
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:21 pm
by tdump
JohnM wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:05 pm
Jerry VanOoteghem wrote: ↑Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:01 pm
It's kinda like a ship carrying a lifeboat.
DITTO!
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:39 pm
by Rich Eagle
"at the height of the oil boom".
A bit more of the photo.
Early '26 car. Note there is no headlight crossbar.
Rich
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:00 pm
by Rich P. Bingham
The caption is fun : "Down in Breckenridge, Texas the horses ride in Fords".
That's a young colt in the Ford. Possibly its mother under saddle behind. Perhaps the owner felt a journey to town would be too hard for the little one to trot alongside. Maybe the colt has been sold.
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:11 pm
by TXGOAT2
The photographer, Basil Clemons, spent his last years in an old sheepherders' wagon on the site of the poultry business in the picture. I remember seeing him outside of it when I was little. Clemons once had a photography studio in Washington State. Hundreds of his pictures of everyday people and things are kept at the UT Arlington, Tx. library and may be viewable online.
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:33 pm
by Erik Johnson
Re: Model T Touring horse trailer??
Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2024 7:37 pm
by John kuehn
Hi Rich!
I saw the photo on a Facebook page. The rest of the photo didn’t show up like yours did. Here in Texas there are several sites that have old Texas ranch and history photos on it.
I guess the site didn’t get all of the photo in their Facebook page. It’s neat to see the rest the photo and glad you did! Lots of T history is out there.
