Loading Cars, 1954
Grandad's beloved 1941 two-tone cream-over-maroon DeSoto being backed into the side-loading car ferry MV Pemaquid. I think that, just as they do now, passengers were loaded first by walking up the ramps into the car deck and then topside, since I made this picture from the deck of the boat. You can see the stanchions and ropes that were used as grab rails for passengers, then dropped so the cars could load. The attendants who backed the cars in moved lightning-fast and packed 'em in like sardines in a can, yet there was never a scratch on Grandad's car so they must've known what they were doing. The ferries today make it relatively easy for the owners to back their own cars in, but there was no way they were going to let civilians back cars up a split ramp into a side-loader in 1954. :D
Loading Cars, 1954
Grandad's beloved 1941 two-tone cream-over-maroon DeSoto being backed into the side-loading car ferry MV Pemaquid. I think that, just as they do now, passengers were loaded first by walking up the ramps into the car deck and then topside, since I made this picture from the deck of the boat. You can see the stanchions and ropes that were used as grab rails for passengers, then dropped so the cars could load. The attendants who backed the cars in moved lightning-fast and packed 'em in like sardines in a can, yet there was never a scratch on Grandad's car so they must've known what they were doing. The ferries today make it relatively easy for the owners to back their own cars in, but there was no way they were going to let civilians back cars up a split ramp into a side-loader in 1954. :D