Today, we have three news-service photos, all titled “Still Making Wagons” and all with a dateline of Owensboro (Kentucky), January 4, 1948.

For all three of these photos, I’ve included the original captions, which are taped to the back.

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"using a hydraulic press to fit the steel rim into the wooden rim is one of the few uses of the machine age in wagon manufacture at the Owensboro Wagon Company here" (from the Jack and Marge Day collection)

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"this machine, an axle lathe, grinds the axle down to proper length and diameter so the skein can be fitted over the end; Pete Mills, the operator, has been employed at the Owensboro plant for more than forty years" (from the Jack and Marge Day collection)

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"when the wagons have been finished at the manufacturer's here, they are shipped out to retailers in pieces -- eighteen pieces in all; retailers do the job of assembly; here, Walter Welche (foreground) and Clyde Glover load a freight car with wagon parts bound for Georgia" (from the Jack and Marge Day collection)