NOV. 5ISSUE ANSWERS: This is a photo of the 1889 Brabb Smith Road Cart. This was the sportscar of the day. Hook up your best horse between the shafts, pick up your girlfriend and fly down Main Street Romeo. By the way, there was a speed limit! Just like the Ketcham Brothers and the Hill Cart Company, Mr. George Washington Brabb and his business partner Mr. Smith wanted some of the action of building carriages. When the Romeo Historical Society received this donated cart, they also received the U. S. Patent Office information and drawings of the cart. Mr. Brabb thought his cart design was a new way to build carts, so he filed his patent application. George wrote,” It is the object of our invention to provide a road cart wherein the body of the vehicle will be supported from joints adjacent to the axel and thus bringing the center of gravity of the load over the axel and lessening the horse motion. In the drawings [which the museum has], fig. 1 is a side elevation of our improved road cart with the wheels removed.” Doesn’t it just make you want to go for a ride? Richard Beringer, Craig Blacksmith Museum Curator