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Title
Wayne
Petersen
and
Richard
Wolfe
Transport
a
corpse
on the
Tin
Goose
Subject
Tin
Goose
;
Ohio
Industries
;
Ohio
history
and
culture
Place
Ottawa
County
(Ohio)
;
Port
Clinton
(Ohio)
Description
This
photograph
shows
Wayne
Petersen
and
Richard
Wolfe
of the
Gerner
and
Wolfe
Funeral
Home
. They are
transporting
a
corpse
aboard
the
Ford
Tri-Motor
,
nick-named
'The
Tin
Goose
'. The
tin
goose
was a
three
engine
transport
plane
. A
total
of
199
Ford
Trimotors
were
produced
by
companies
of
Henry
Ford
between
1925
and
1933
.
One
route
the
tin
goose
would
fly
was from
Port
Clinton
,
Ohio
to
Middle
Bass
Island
. This was a
short
15
minute
flight
that was
carried
out
twice
daily
at
9:00am
and
4:00pm
by
Island
Airlines
.
Milton
Hershberger
was the
owner
of
Port
Clinton's
Air
Service
in the
early
1900s
. In
1931
,
Milton
Hershberger
,
added
the
first
Ford
TriMotor
to his
Island
Airlines
fleet
.
Later
he
bought
two
more
of the
planes
to
carry
passengers
,
mail
and
freight
from
Port
Clinton
to the
islands
year
round
. The
Port
Clinton
Tin
Gooses
were
sold
off
--
the
last
one
,
N7584
,
toured
the
country
in the
late
1980s
.
It
spent
a
summer
in
Sandusky
before
being
sold
to an
air
museum
in
Florida
,
where
it
was
severely
damaged
by
Hurricane
Andrew
but
repaired
.
Collection
Industrial
Collection
Format
Picture
Submitting Institution
Ottawa County Museum
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http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
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StillImage
File Name
ac1_OCHM_ind_002.tif
Image Height
4608
Image Width
4448
File Size
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