Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 11
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The sport model buggy - one without a top - was usually
called a "trap buggy". Large families might be fortunate enough
to own a surrey with a fringe on top. Two horses were required
to pull this affair and there were many persons, especially
doctors, who had a two horse buggy.
The two horse buggy allowed one to make faster time on the
muddy roads and up the slick hills. Quite a few families used
their wagons when the entire family went to town. Visits to
town usually meant Saturday trips, as the week days were spent
doing chores about the farm house. The exception to this was
market time in the fall, when cotton and cottonseed were hauled
to market.
There were families who made their plow stocks, buying
only the hardware to complete the plow and put it into shape for
service. When a buggy wheel or wagon wheel broke down, the up
to date farm family repaired it in its own blacksmith shop. Others
depended on the village blacksmith. In the summer the wheels
would shrink and the tires of the wagons might fall off. They
were supposed to remain on the wheel without fasteners of any
kind.
The blacksmith would remove a wagon tire from the wheel
when it was loose and heat it in a fire until it was red hot.
He would then place it on the wheel and dip it into water to cool
it quickly. This was metal they were working with although they
called it a tire. The quick cooling caused the tire to shrink
and tightly grip the wheel, holding spokes and fellows in shape
to make them strong. Sometimes they had to shorten the tire11.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978, periodical, January 1978; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255383/m1/19/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.