X-Frame
The Fall 1940 catalog showed the CrossCountry and a new, different trailer, with a “Knee-Action spring” (using a true coil-spring suspension) and the tongues that would become associated with Allstate trailers. These tongues were castings shaped into a sort of “question mark” shape and were designed to fit over or under a car’s bumper and attach to either the bumper brackets or the car’s frame. This trailer had an X-shaped frame and was only available for 2 years from Sears. The box was 48″ x 42″ x 9-3/4″, had 4 wood sides with “steel corner angles and four steel cross members,”. It was rated for 500 pounds of cargo, came from a “factory in Chicago”, and sold for $29.95
The earlier “Cross Country” trailer, with its 750 pound load capacity, was still available, with its Niles, Ohio source, and was priced at $37.95.