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Toronto Water Works Trucks, 1914

YOU HAD TO BE TOUGH to drive a truck some ninety years ago. Many trucks, like the ones here in St. Andrew’s yard on Tuesday, November 17, 1914, had no doors, even if they were driven year-round. And the ones with solid rubber tires could shake your teeth out. They were usually geared low for hauling capacity and didn’t have much of a top speed. Ron Fawcett recalled a Model T tanker truck he drove years ago: “It had two forward speeds — slow and slower.”