Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

The other thread was gettin' long so I decided to start a fresh one here. I acquired a variety of vintage trailer plans printed from older magazines. I believe these to be public domain, but if there are any issues, please let me know about it.

My wish is for Mike to add it to his collection "Vintage Plans" on the top of this forum. It is sort my contribution to the forum, and because I enjoy the people and info here. I hope to build a TD some day, but while I was making my plans, I stumbled across a vintage trailer to work on. So my plans for a TD will be after I finish the current project.

I was going to make a nice little web page to outline everything, but it started to feel like work. I tried to upload the plans that Mike didn't have listed above. You will need a .pdf viewer, ie. Adobe Acrobat, and can be downloaded for free.

All the files are here:

http://www.salsaholics.com/trailerplans/

To save files to your computer, right click on file name, and choose "Save Target as..."

File name: description

Folding Bedroom: More Fun For Your Money:How to Build a Folding Bedroom, by Joy LaBell
Popular Science
May 1954

Folding Travel Trailer:
Folding Travel Trailer, by Harry Bower
Science and Mechanics
May 1962

Gypsies:
Luxury Trailers create a new army of “Modern Gypsies”
Popular Science Monthly
April 1936

Jim Dandy:
Jim Dandy Cabin Cruiser
Model “C”

Lightweight:
Lightweight Trailer for Week-End Vacations
by John Gartner
Popular Science
March 1946

Model Airplane:
“A Model Airplane Trailer”,
A Mechanix Illustrated
October 1940
article on how to build a
model airplane teardrop trailer

Popup Camping Trailer:
Camping Trailer, Compact on the road…
by Don Armstrong
Mechanix Illustrated
March 1962

Uni:“Uni-Wheel Trailer”
“Hauls Sportsmen’s Equipment”
Sportsmen’s Manual
1937 Edition

Weekend:
“Finishing Your Weekend Trailer”
by John Gartner
Part II
Popular Science
April 1946

I am looking for an article titled "Wright Enters Third Year" beginning on page 55 in the July 1946 issue of Trail-R-News magazine discussing "Curtis Wright Industries" trailer production. If you have access to this article, I would appreciate it greatly.

Cliff

Hey, bro!

These plans are already here(check the "vintage plans" link)? Wanna go sailing? I have a boat in Dana Point harbor.

reiltear wrote:Hey, bro!

These plans are already here(check the "vintage plans" link)? Wanna go sailing? I have a boat in Dana Point harbor.

Really, which ones, I have so many plans that I may have gotten confused. Like my first post says, "it started to feel like work". So if there are duplicates with different names just disregard it, and get the ones you don't have.

cuyeda wrote:<snip>
Cliff
P.S. My trailer project:

Looks to be a 40's Airstream there Cliff. Nice find and I would say your priorities are about right. But then again your picture says it's a CurtisWright. I don't believe I've seen one. What year is it?

P.S. By the way, what happened to the Aljoa or are you collecting vintage trailers now?

I really got a chuckle out of the Dec 1936 plan. I read with interest the price list for the materials. As much as I'd like to see those prices come back, I don't want to be earning the same wage they were earning back then.

Gage wrote:

cuyeda wrote:P.S. By the way, what happened to the Aljoa or are you collecting vintage trailers now?

Gage, check your PM.

Hi Cliff.

First, I need to aplogize for my snotty tone in the previous post.

It appears that "September 36", "Lightweight" and "Weekender" are already in the link on this forum. As far as the other plans in your website go, I must have seen them elsewhere on the web. TDs are extremely addictive for me and sometimes things just turn into a blur.

And my offer to go sailing still stands, I'll provide the beverages of your choice, e-mail me if interested.

Ilya

Ilya, don't worry about it. There were a couple of plans that took on a different filename, and were actually duplicates that Mike had posted. I quickly deleted those after going through my list again. There are some that were not posted. A couple may not fit the theme of these forums here, being actual trailers, and not teardrops. I just thought it would make good reading materials.

If a TD builder can learn one good technique, and or get inspired that would be great. Thanks for the invite, never been on a sailboat. I hope to build a TD someday.

P.S. re-edit. I just looked at the Dec36 file, and is a duplicate. Oh well I try.

Thanks for posting the plans, Cliff!

A bit late for me, now the Crocodile Tear is built... but some good ideas there.

The biggest room in my trailer, anyway, is the Room for Improvement!