
Now here's something that most people hardly know or even think about, just how people handled the snow before the modern day. Well, the answer is really in much the same way as we do now, just using whatever their technology could muster at the time, even to the point of using cows or horses to push a yoke with a frontal plow to clear roadways back in the day. Well here's a few interesting pictures of a conversion sold to those with Model T's to convert their vehicles to more easily run on snow and ice. Supposedly it didn't work quite as well as they would have liked, but judging by the amount of sales, it was likely something that worked well enough. They simply added additional wheels to the rear and enclosed each side in a track piece for more traction/grip. Then they would either place skis under the front wheels/tires or replace them all together with skis. Pretty good idea, and would actually work quite well on today's vehicles as well.

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