. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 4.—A Strake, Showing Spikes. On early vehicles the tires were put on in sections and spiked in place. Later one endless tire was "sweated" on by being heated to expand it, fitted on the wheel, and cooled in place. indicates that these early wagons had no brakes such as the large Conestogas of a later era had.'^ From all indications it would appear that these early farm wagons differed froin the larger freighters of the 1790's and were probably similar to the lighter, fann-type Conestogas of the 19th century. Farm \Nagons are
. Bulletin - United States National Museum. Science. Figure 4.—A Strake, Showing Spikes. On early vehicles the tires were put on in sections and spiked in place. Later one endless tire was "sweated" on by being heated to expand it, fitted on the wheel, and cooled in place. indicates that these early wagons had no brakes such as the large Conestogas of a later era had.'^ From all indications it would appear that these early farm wagons differed froin the larger freighters of the 1790's and were probably similar to the lighter, fann-type Conestogas of the 19th century. Farm \Nagons are somewhat smaller than road wagons, generally bear less ornamentation and lack the more graceful lines of the latter. Contemporary letters and newspaper advertise- ments attest to the fact that farm wagons were the type used by Braddock. For example, Franklin's advertisement in the Pennsylvania Gazette on May 22, 1755, noted that "several Neighbors may con- veniently join in fitting out a Waggon, as was lately done in the Back ; Had these wagon owners been other than farmers of poor means, such a notation would have been unnecessary. In another communication to the inhabitants of Lancaster, York, and Cumberland Counties Franklin said, "three or fntr of such as cannot separately spare from the business of their Plantations a Wagon and four Horses and a Driver, may do it together, one furnishing the \Vaggon, another one or two 1* Strakcs were sjjikod onto the wheel with large square headed nails, as indicated in figure 3, and a brake shoe would have been rapidly torn to pieces by rubbing against Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States National Museum; Smithsonian Institution; United States. Dept. of the Interior. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press,
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