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Early Highway Trailer
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An auto-trailer, an early trailer manufactured by the Highway Trailer Company of Edgerton. The company began by manufacturing trailers designed for farmers to haul goods to market using their cars. When equipped with higher sides the trailer could be used for transporting cattle. Behind the trailer is the Goodwin Grocery which identifies the location as brick-paved Vine Street in Beloit.
1915
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Kissel Truck
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Washington County highway worker filling a Kissel-built truck with gravel and crushed rock.
Holt Lumber Company Truck
1921
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Highway Trailer Factory
1917
Original factory of the Highway Trailers Company in Edgerton. Beginning in 1909 the factory was the site of a wagon works, but in 1917 it made a rather typical transition to the automobile industr...
Restored Mitchell
1903
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Highway Center Line Marker
June 1942
A highway employee rides the machine which painted the center line of paved highways.
