Story of the exhibit

A single-axle trailer built from parts of a GAZ-AA truck. The donor wrote down the history of the exhibit as follows: Ordering the trailer The trailer was ordered by the Kamari auxiliary farm of the Võhma meat combine, headed by my grandfather Karl Maandi (born 1909 in Põltsamaa). The auxiliary farm, also called the "livestock reserve", was located on Lossi Street by the Põltsamaa river, between Põltsamaa and the Kamari Aleksandri School. Animals were kept at the auxiliary farm until they were taken to the Võhma meat plant. It was built in the late 1950s by the "Jopsu" boys, headed by Ants Oja. The builders came from the Jopsu or Oja farm. The cart was built in Põltsamaa, in the workshop of the Põltsamaa lemonade factory at the corner of Tamme and Vahe streets. Today the building is used as a residential house. The cart was built on the frame of a GAZ-AA truck, and the body was made of wood. The cart has a single axle. Using the trailer In the second half of the 1950s grandfather Karl, together with his younger son Karli Maandi (born 1946 in Põltsamaa), brought the first green tractor from Tallinn (from the southern republics; it started on petrol and ran on diesel). That's what the cart was needed for – it was used to carry, for example, maize for the animals, which was a popular feed at the time. Previously all the work had been done with horses, and the new era brought changes. Uncle Karli drove the tractor himself, as grandfather preferred horses. The cart had a single axle, and according to my uncle, reversing competitions were very popular. Often 12-year-old Karli was the winner. At the end of the 1970s the time came at the auxiliary farm when older machinery became surplus and was replaced with new. My mother Anu Terep (born 1950 in Põltsamaa) received this cart and many other horse implements as her dowry when she married my father August Terep (born 1947 in Põltsamaa) in 1974. The Tereps farmed fields on town land (hay, grain, potatoes, beets, carrots) and kept animals (cows, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens). I remember mighty piles of potato sacks and wonderful loads of hay on top of which I took long rides with my brother Raul, cousin Jaan and cousins Eve, Tiiu, Anneli and Eneken. At the age of 10 I got to drive my father's home-made tractor with this same cart around the fields, the Võisiku and Kamari hay meadows and the streets of Põltsamaa. The cart probably did its last work in 1994–1996. Its last location was the garage at Lühike St 5.