Can anyone identify these?

[Lookfar]

I'm looking towards my next build, which will be a standy. This photo came from the forum, and I'm hoping someone has some information on the trailers.



Not exactly a tear or a canned ham, but interesting. I'll have to dismantle my tear (terminal warp on passenger side) and use the trailer frame I have, after a little enlarging. Would love to have some help finding out about them.

[emiller]

Looks like a couple of Curtis travel trailers or designed like.
http://www.tincantourists.com/wiki/doku ... tis_wright

[Lookfar]

It does like pretty much like them, doesn't it? Some differences, but the profile is pretty close. Thanks...

[mezmo]

Hi Lookfar,

I'd guess those TTs are from the late 1920s-early 1930s. The car is.
They do look like they were made commercially or at least from related
plans. That arc roof line was one of the several designs back then. A
lot of UK caravans of the same era used similar roofs too. The 'shovel'
front [curved side to side like a shovel blade held vertical] is seen on a
lot of the pics from the TinCanTourists of that era and the old newsreels
about trailers and camping you can see on youtube at times.

It looks like several were grouped together for use as 'motel cabins' or
such. If you look closely, none of the TTs have tires on their wheels! It
surely must have been in the midst of the Depression.

It also looks, by the sides' texture - quite seamless, that they were
probably finished in paint and canvas, as were a lot of TTs of that era
were. A couple-three TD builders on the forum here have used that
method and it is a current topic in the Foamie section too, if you want to
use that method to be 'authentic', it's an old-time technology that still
works. Curtis-Wrights of the similar design were from mid-late 1940s
and were of all aluminum body construction.

It'd be nice if somehow you can find their 'brand' out, but there were a
lot of small builders/manufacturers starting out and throughout RV/
TT history so it may be hard. But you never know what will show up on
the web.

Have fun researching, designing and building. That'd be one of the
"retro-ist" looking builds out there if you can 'gitrdone'.

Cheers,
Norm/mezmo

[Lookfar]

Mornin' Norm;
They do look a lot like the Curtis model, without the aluminum. I've seen a similar profile in an old photo of Port Aransas, also. It was more of a shovel nose, where these appear to be flat.
I think you are right about the "motel" idea. It also appears that the 2nd trailer from the left is smaller than the others. Also, the one in the foreground has a "reverse" profile, compared to the others.
Can't quite estimate the length, but I'm thinking of about 10' long, 6 1/2' wide. If I can come up with some actual dimensions, it might stretch to about 12'.
I do think this is what I'll build, and may start next spring. Got some more camping to do with the tear first.

[john warren]

i posted that awhile ago. i believe i read that this trailer park built them from some design to use as rental units. could be from those you mentioned.