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Interview with Lois E. Merritt, Merritt Bros. Basket Factory - Lois Explains how Merritt Bros. Baskets were Delivered

See they used to have these big open trucks, and they would put them together, you see? There, loaded onto the trucks. (Now before you had a truck do you remember, do you remember when the truck was purchased?) No, I might have only been two years old. (Would they have used horse and dray prior to that?) They used horses, yeah (And with the proximity to the train station, were any of the baskets shipped by train?) I don't think so, no, they just delivered them, but they used to deliver all the way down to Niagara- on- the-Lake and all over the Peninsula. (So it was relatively local?) Yes it was a local business.