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Maybe building a new home ? Or a desperate salesman with samples ?

Looks like he’s building a motor home to me. Can anybody tell if that toilet is a “Crapper”…?

Millions had no running water in those days, and a good many had probably never seen such appliances.

T goat has a point. Most of Henry Fords common man as he referred to them used an out house with 1 hole on a board and enclosed in a 4x5 wooden structure and a 2 holler would be about 6 ft wide, Maybe! They may have seen a regular toilet if they went to Montgomery Wards on Saturday.

Rub a dub dub, two men and a tub.
I'll bet they have to jiggle the handle to make the Ford start.
Rich

And I do believe that IS the kitchen sink on the passenger side! That thunder mug sitting on the floor cracks me up!
I bet he's supplying a new-build or bringing his current house "up to standards" now. Had to be exciting albeit lots of work for the poor fella.

A great setup for heavy traffic. All cars should have those convienences!
Norm

You think it was an exciting day when they got the new Ford? You shoulda been there when they first turned the water on for indoor plumbing!

When I was a kid, we used a 20 gallon Montgomery Ward "Windsor" water heater. It was an upright tank that sat on cast iron legs with a small, round cast iron stove on the side. The stove held a gas burner and a double copper coil connected near the bottom of the tank and near the top. As water was heated in the coil, it rose up a pipe to the connection near the top of the tank, to be repalced by cold water from near the bottom of the tank. No thermostat. No insulation. Water circulated by thermosyphon. If you turned the burner up too high and left it, live steam would shoot out of the hot water taps. It had no relief valve, either, but apparently the tank could hold more pressure than the water main.

I think Thomas Crapper only sold toilets in England and the colonies of Great Britain. I have never seen an original "Crapper" here in the U.S.
Crapper invented and perfected the modern flush toilet. You can read about his achievements in the book "Flushed With Pride". He wound up with a warrant to supply the Royal Family of England. Warrants are ONLY given to the original named person, and when they die, retire, or leave the company, the warrant must be returned to the Crown. They are not issued to an actual company, but to ONE SPECIFIC person in that company, and only are in force while that specific person is employed by that company.

Definitely not an English toilet. We see the water inlet where US toilets have them but the discharge is clearly under the stand, again as US toilets are built. English toilets have both water inlet fitting AND discharge on the back side of the base. While Thomas Crapper perfected the already invented flush toilet, many other firms made them as well, include Royal Doulton, who also had a royal warrant, hence the Royal in the name. Several houses in which we lived had Royal Doulton toilets, very satisfying to urinate into Royal Doulton.

"Our royal flush beats your full house !"

About 30 years ago we visited Stockholm Sweden. In the store they sold toilet paper with the name Krapp. We brought home a roll and I still have it in it's original wrapper.
Norm

Somehow, I feel I should tell the Virginia, City, MT story about the time all the toilets in town were stolen. The authorities suspected the Plumber gang but had nothing to go on.
But I won't.

If that is a cast iron tub in the back they have some serious weight. Two workers and I wrestled with one when I was redoing the bathroom in my previous house. It nearly ran us over trying to get it down the steps.

Water doesn't run up hill, but it looks like that car is.