Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **kirtsjc** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:20 pm

Just testing & learning

BTW, it is a cross-section of a Trotwood, but forgot the year of it.

John

PS to Madjack: No, it is not my "Buggy", I'm in a learning experience kinda moment so I CAN post pictures for you and the others.

(Hi Mike!)

JCK

by **AmyH** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:24 pm

JCK,

That is a really nice illustration. I would love to know the dimensions.

Amy

by **kirtsjc** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:11 pm

AmyH wrote:JCK,

That is a really nice illustration. I would love to know the dimensions.

Amy

Mz Amy,

I would like to dimension it, but I don't have the book anymore. However, it was a commercially produced trailer called Trotwood, circa 1950's. I think I scanned it from Book #3, at this link:
http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?t=7193

John

by **mikeschn** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:33 am

Just eyeballing it I would say it's almost 9' long and 6 1/2' wide and 5' tall.

Each of the beds appear to fold down into a twin sized mattress.

Opps... a quick search found this brochure...

If there's room for 4 adults, that would make each bed at least a full sized, therefore the whole trailer would have to be 12' long, 7' wide and 6' high.

Mike...

by **PresTx82** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:37 am

I don't know if anyone has seen this (you all probably have), but I found this link today: http://www.trikesaustralia.com/teardrop ... dpages.pdf

from the Aussie Teardrop website which has a download of an article on teardrops from 1947. It has dimensions from the article on how to build this model.

by **mikeschn** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 6:18 am

Hmmm... I see not everyone has seen the vintage plans...

Therefore, I have added a link up there in the menu with some Vintage plans that are in the public domain. Thanks PresTx!

Have fun!

Mike...

by **angib** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 11:11 am

mikeschn wrote:Just eyeballing it I would say it's almost 9' long and 6 1/2' wide and 5' tall.

Opps... a quick search found this brochure...

I think you were right first time, Mike. That brochure advert looks to be for a trailer that's quite a bit bigger than the one in the cutaway illustration.

That layout is interesting, though a 6 1/2 or 7 foot width is hardly a tiny trailer any more.

Andrew

by **Jiminsav** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:32 pm

Mike, if the woman in the illistration is 5'6" tall, and she fell first to the right, and got back up and fell to the right..it appears she wouldn't hit the ends on either side..so i'd say it's 14 foot long.. :thinking: