MOTOR CARAVAN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1939, Page 7

MOTOR CARAVAN

A HOME ON WHEELS. IDEAL FOR HOLIDAYS. Built on a special steel chassis of cantilever type, attractive, roomy and compact, a new motor trailer-caravan on display at the W.F.C.A. Garage, Masterton, has been attracting considerable attention. An inspection of it readily shows why motor caravanning is becoming such a popular method of holiday-making. Few homes could be as attractive in the ingenuity of the various household units and the labour of the normal camping holiday gives way to pleasurable house-keep-ing with every modern convenience. The particular model now at the Farmers’ Garage was built by the Tanner Caravan Co., of Auckland, and its overall measurements are 16ft. Sin. by 61’1. Bin. It. is fitted with easily adjustable parking jacks at the rear and an adjustable front parking wheel incorporated on the trailer attachment. This model can comfortably accommodate four persons. Across the forward end are two single beds built like ship's berths, one above the other, on the drop principle and fitted with comfortable mattresses. At the other end, normally the dining or lounge compartment as required, two settees face a collapsible and removable table. The table can be lowered, the seats from cither settee placed on it, then the backs lowered and in a matter of split seconds, almost a full and cosy double bed is formed across the rear end of the caravan.

Close by is a neat dressing table with mirror above and four large drawers below. A full-length wardrobe. too, is fitted and when particular privacy .is desired the wardrobe doors fold outwards making a complete partition across the caravan and forming two separate room’s. The cooking section is ranged along part of one side. A double-burner petrol cooker readily opens up with a cupboard for pots and pans below it. Close by is a neat kitchen table. In the centre a circular cover can be lifted off to reveal the basin or sink lo which water is supplied through a tap controlled by a hand pump which draws water from a five gallan tank under the chassis. Under the bench are more cupboards and an insulated safe, cool, clean and handy. Built close to the roof is a special compartment for carrying cups, saucers and plates, so designed that there can be no movement of these breakable articles as the caravan is drawn along highway or by-way. Round the walls are four neatlycurtained windows with two additional ventilating louvres. A wireless plug is fitted in the wall and an aerial incorporated on the body construction.

Finished in natural wood, the interior is as pleasing to the eye as handy for the housekeeper and with power from a 6-volt battery even electric light is available at the turn of a switch just as in the most modern house.

There could be nothing primitive about a holiday on such a caravan as this. The model on exhibition , has been built wholly in New Zealand to Now Zealand specifications and design. Its price is low but its worth is undoubtedly great. 4