These Oxen were certainly up to the task of pulling this early automobile, though I think travel would have been a bit slow! There is some disagreement as to whether this was actually a
Bennett Buggy, or just someone getting an ox-tow to the garage? The date on the photo puts it well before
The Great Depression,
The Dirty Thirties, and
Prime Minister R. B. Bennett's term. But, I favor that it may
be a Bennett type buggy because it's obviously cold outside and the driver has the top down and the windshield removed. This would be helpful in communicating his wishes to the ox, but unbearably cold if he was planning on traveling at road speeds; even 1913 road speeds! The draw-bar also appears to be attatched to the car, a task unneccessary for a simple ox-tow.
Perhaps it was so cold that the driver has given up ever getting that frozen, block-headed engine running again --- making this a
Bennett Buggy, well in advance of its time!
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