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SPRINGVILLE, UT USA The mid to early 1900’s saw a different breed of do-it-yourself, make-due, can-do attitude than what is prevalent today, when everything is handed to us pre-packages, disposable, and mass produced. Here’s a story about my own grandfather that I heard for the first time just a few days ago, and here I am nearly 40 years old. Back in the early ’30s, my grandfather, Sylvester (Smuss) Allan, Grant Minor, and their buddy Bliss Childs, all from the Springville Utah area, took their wives and drove out to Detroit and bought three Ford dump trucks — one each — and one car, to take back to Utah with them. They wanted to get into the business of hauling rocks to solidify road beds. While in Detroit, picking up their trucks, they had an idea to put two tires on each side in the back rather than one, and to use pneumatic (inner-tube) tires rather than the solid rubber tires that heavy vehicles used at that time.