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Campfire_Time
Sep 18, 2017Explorer
mowermech wrote:
Chances are, that is not a "camper" or "Recreational Vehicle", that is a "trailer house".
Some may ask "What's the difference?". That is a good question.
A "trailer house" does not have holding tanks. It does not have a fresh water tank or pump. It does not have a battery. It does not have a 12VDC system, except for the DOT exterior lights. It was built to be towed to a site in a trailer park, and lived in.
In other words, they were the ancestors of the single-wide "mobile homes" that are built today.
My family lived in one in the early 1950s. It was smaller than the one shown, but similar.
Exactly what I was thinking.
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