What Is/was this used for?

[TheModelAGuy]

Posting for another car guy.
What is it?
Here is what he knows:
Found in old garage
Fixed wheels (do not steer)
Ramp on end lowers
Hole in opposite end

Guesses so far are: used to haul something or wheel dolly for old car.

 

[FOCUS.FREAK]

My guess is as good as yours. Looks to be a dolly for wheels on a car. Possibly the back end and the front is not fixed or the opposite. Vise versa

 

[safariknut]

How heavy a gauge is the steel? If it is a light gauge it might not have supported a car and even with a handle attached would be difficult at best to move it around.Maybe part of an old time tire display.

 

[Milton Shaw]

Dolly to move motor cycle around is about the only thing I can think of. No way would it be for a car.

 

[Fretters]

Dolly to move motor cycle around is about the only thing I can think of. No way would it be for a car.

That's what I'd say too. Plonk that under the rear wheel and then push along and steer the bike with the handlebars.

 

[CwazyWabbit]

Why would you do that? The dollies for cars have all the wheels rotatable so you can push the vehicles in any direction, I thought that was the point of them, to allow you to get them out of the way and into places where you couldn't steer them with the normal wheels.
If it were for a motorbike back wheel that also seems a strange idea, you are replacing one large wheel with several smaller ones that give no increase in the directions it will move but make it harder to go over bumps and ridges due to their smaller diameter. The ramp on it also means it's for use while the original wheel still rotates, so it's not for moving something with a seized drivetrain then I guess.