When winter arrived wagons and carriages were put away in favor of sleighs and pungs. Snow on the streets was packed down by snowrollers (like the one above) to facilitate traveling via runners. Raymond Whitney Sr. remembers that when the first snow began to fly, cars were blocked up in the barn with the tires off the floor. All fluids were drained from the vehicles, and the valve cover gaskets and valves were removed. The operation was reversed in the late spring, when the valves were reground and replaced, fluids refilled, tires remounted, and the car was taken off the blocks. With the plowing of winter roads this process became unnecessary.

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