{"id":1705,"date":"2018-01-24T15:38:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T23:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2025-11-08T19:54:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T03:54:22","slug":"1705","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/1705\/","title":{"rendered":"<!Title - Allstate - X-Frame>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2242\" src=\"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sears-1940-Fall.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"372\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: 'Calibri Light'; font-size: 20.0pt;\">X-Frame<\/p>\n<p>The Fall 1940 catalog showed the CrossCountry and a new, different trailer, with a &#8220;Knee-Action spring&#8221; (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 &#8220;question mark&#8221; shape and were designed to fit over or under a car&#8217;s bumper and attach to either the bumper brackets or the car&#8217;s frame. This trailer had an X-shaped frame and was only available for 2 years from Sears. The box was 48&#8243; x 42&#8243; x 9-3\/4&#8243;, had 4 wood sides with &#8220;steel corner angles and four steel cross members,&#8221;. It was rated for 500 pounds of cargo, came from a &#8220;factory in Chicago&#8221;, and sold for $29.95<br \/>\nThe earlier &#8220;Cross Country&#8221; trailer, with its 750 pound load capacity, was still available, with its Niles, Ohio source, and was priced at $37.95.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X-Frame The Fall 1940 catalog showed the CrossCountry and a new, different trailer, with a &#8220;Knee-Action spring&#8221; (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 &#8220;question mark&#8221; shape and were designed to fit over or under a car&#8217;s bumper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[203],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-x-frame","tag-x-frame","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4056,"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/4056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singlewheel.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}