Vintage British Rigs

Yes, 16 feet. There weren't many bigger than that in the UK back in my early driving days (mid-1950's). Most people didn't have a dedicated tow vehicle and used the family car. It was unusual to see family cars any bigger than 2 liters.

One year (maybe 1959), my folks rented an older Eccles 16' trailer, very much like the one in the opening post. they towed with our family barge, a 1938 Austin 12 - a 4-cylinder L-head that was less than 40 HP. At the time, I had a Vespa 150 and I acted as "forward scout" looking for potential problems ahead. There were two adults and three teenagers in the car. On hills, one of the teens rode on the scooter with me.

It certainly wasn't high-speed transportation, but we covered about 600 miles through the south-west of England in two weeks. The old car only boiled over 4 times!

Thanks for sharing.

Look closely at the signs in the trailer behind the fruits
Sign on far right is advertising 1982 model
Sign on left had the price 16,531 British pounds?

Those look like park models

Another picture further down the page, is clearly a sales lot not a "caravan park"


Signs adv new 4 berth aka 4 beds models , 16' ft? Can't be meters that would be 48 ft
All lined up side by side on the gravel lot

The person at the paper, writing the commentary doesn't know what he is
Describing

And that Couple escaping the wwi
Look more like a pair of young ladies on a Holiday
Or
An adv brochure picture
Not somebody fleeing in desperation

The Daily Mail, is very good at messing up what would other wise be interesting articles

1995brave wrote:
Dang Brit's, They always have the good stuff.

Not when it came to food in the '70's and '80's.

Limp veggies and over cooked meats = time to get on the Continent, not now, but right now, back then. So glad much has changed:).

'Course now they've wandered into insular-ism sooooooo we'll see what that gets 'em. Weird from my POV.

As an ex-pat Brit, I can assure you, 1995brave, they most certainly don't, particularly that old Eccles. Based on my aunt and uncle's experience with their mid-1950's rig and a few rentals we had, British rigs were very crudely equipped by comparison to contemporary US ones.

They've probably caught up some in recent times, but a lot of amenities and gadgetry that are basic in the current US-market rigs are probably still uncommon.

Dang Brit's, They always have the good stuff.

Very cool!

Neat stuff. Thanks for sharing!