The high wheeler was an early car body style virtually unique to the US. It is typified by large-diameter slender wheels, frequently with solid rubber tires, to provide ample ground clearance on the primitive roads predominant at the turn of the 20th century. For the same reason, it usually had a wider track than normal automobiles. High wheelers were derived from horse-drawn wagons, and often were conversions of these. So, they shared many details like similar wood-spoke wheels, suspensions or, often, the boxy wooden bodies. The last ones were built around 1910.