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SIA Flashback - The 1930s Trailer Boom

Posted June 15, 2008 1:27 PM

From Hemmings Auto Blogs:

After this week's Four-Links post on travel trailers, it seemed only appropriate to feature this article from SIA #24, September-October 1974, which discussed the quick rise of the American travel trailer during the 1930s and the various companies that filled the sudden demand for cheap housing on the go. Interestingly, it seemed that demand came from both the poor, who substituted trailers for actual housing, and the extremely rich, who (of course) viewed the trailers as playthings. The $8,500 Curtiss Aerocar, pictured above on the back of an Oldsmobile coupe, would thus have served the latter category of trailer enthusiast.

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Re: SIA Flashback - The 1930s Trailer Boom

06/21/2008 5:20 AM

We built our first one, out of mostly wood, back in the early 1950's.

Mind you, we towed that heavy contraption with a pre-WW2 Chevrolet car, which had a long-stroke engine, and it was a very steep hill for which we changed to a lower gear.

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