ATTRACTIVE CARAVANS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 February 1939, Page 7

ATTRACTIVE CARAVANS

W.F.C.A. DISPLAY AT SHOW. Built on special steel chassis of cantilever type, attractive, roomy and compact, two motor trailer-caravans on display at the W.F.C.A. stand at the show attracted considerable attention. An inspection of them showed why motor caravanning has become such a popular method of holiday-making. Few homes could be as attractive in the ingenuity of the various households units and the labour of the normal camping holiday gives way to pleasureable house-keeping with every modern convenience. The particular models at the Show were built by Tanner Brothers, of Auckland. Both are fitted with adjustable parking jacks at the rear and an adjustable fronk parking wheel is incorporated on the trailer attachment. The 16ft Bin 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 either 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 wardrode, 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 rooms. The cooking section is ranged along part of one side. A double-burner petrol cooker readily opens up with a cupboard of 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 to which water is supplied through a tap controlled by a hand pump which draws water from a five gallon 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 neatly-cur-tained windows with two additional ventilating louvres. A wireless plug it fitted in the wall and an aerial incorporated on the body construction. Fnished 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. The second caravan is a 14ft model, slightly smaller, but built on the same principle, and to the same high standards of clever craftsmanship and design. With its larger brother it was the centre of interest all days at the Show.