Testing their vehicles
This structure was erected in a field across the street from the Lambert factory as a test for newly completed Lambert vehicles.
This may look like a carnival ride but its intent was much more serious. John himself liked to test drive each vehicle as it came out of his factory and so built a colossal wooden structure on the property across from the factory in Anderson. It’s ramp angled up at 45 degrees to a level 15 feet in the air and extended 30 feet long, at which place there began a set of iron steps for retaining ground level. It was described as “the greatest structure of the sort ever erected.” My great-grandfather is behind the wheel of the pictured Lambert truck.
