Friday, Mar 20, 2020 at 13:33
Hey Eagle, I reckon you must not have come across, too many of the "old 'vans"!
When the brother and I bought a
farm at Wandering (W.A.) in the late 1970's, we found an old caravan on the
farm.
The caravan was built out of overlapped weatherboard timber, over a wooden frame with 4x2 timber studs (just like a regular timber house!), and constructed on the chassis and wheels from a 1937 Ford 3 ton truck!
On top of that, it was fully equipped with a Metters No2 wood stove! I hate to think what it all weighed, full of firewood! LOL
And the brothers boss owned an 18 foot (5.5M) caravan, that was built by a bloke who worked in the Midland Railways workshops, in his spare time - utilising the best metal components he could score.
Those metal components consisted of a caravan frame made from 3/4 inch (19mm) water pipe welded together, all clad with bolted-on corrugated iron!
The caravan tipped over one day, when they roared around a sharp bend too fast, on a gravel road (they were towing it with an Inter truck) - and they dragged the 'van about 300 metres on its side, before they realised it had fallen over!
Not to worry - they righted the 'van, and it had suffered virtually no damage, just scraped the paint off the CGI! LOL
Cheers, Ron.
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