O.K., since I'm here anyway ...
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... I'll give you the short version:
The
Modernistic,
Cub,
Modernaire, and
Marvel-Dwyer (along with some other obscure & regional names) were all cut from the same dies, somewhere in Southern California, beginning about 1946 and running into the mid-'50s. We don't know the name of the company or the mill that stamped out all the parts, but we do know the name of at least one of the many distributors:
National Trailer Stores in Los Angeles.
Cubs were generally the economy models, with only the ice box in the galley counter with an open shelf above, and usually a single shelf in the cabin. The early ones had basic boat-trailer style aluminum fenders, but the later ones got the more stylish fenders associated with the
Modernistic,
Ken-Skill, and
SlumberCoach
Modernistics were the mid-level models, with most getting stoves in the galley and some getting cabinets, with an additional shelf at the front of the cabin.
Both
Cubs and
Modernistics were available in kit form, where you asembled them like a giant
Erector Set.
Some Cub kits came with leaf-springs and beam axle, but most (like all
Modernistic kits) had the torsion-type.
Modernaires and
Marvel-Dwyers seem to be the top-of-the-line models, with both having more elaborate cabinetry, and more than a few
Modernaires were built with a door on the street side.
And, just to confuse us even more,
all of them had radius-corner windows in the early years, but some kept installing them for a year or two longer, and there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason as to who or why got what ...
There's a whole lot more to the history of this particular style of teardrop, but that'll give you enough info to get you in trouble ...
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I'll be eager to see your new acquisition, Jerome? And, in the meantime ...
CHEERS!
Grant