^^ Looks to me like a temporary setup to keep the generator out of the inner fender during assembly. (????)
1934 Dodge KH-32 with body by H. McFarlane & Company of Chicago. This is a picture of one of Coca Cola's Home Sampling trucks. The picture is taken in 1934. Coke introduced it's first Automatic Fountain Dispenser in at the 1933 Chicago Century of Progress Exposition. Then to promote it and it's tasty beverage they commissioned H. McFarlane & Company of Chicago, coachbuilders, to build on DODGE KH-23 Truck chassis a number of special purpose trucks to take it's new produce to the masses!.
A woman hoses down a steam engine in Clinton, Iowa. Prior to World War 2. Women were mostly consigned to clerical duties by railway companies. By 1945 however there were 116,000 women working on the railroads.