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Post by cobber on Feb 16, 2011 16:09:58 GMT 10
Hopes Body Works..... Brisbane This photo from the English “The Caravan magazine” September 1937 pg 713, shows two caravans built by “Hopes Body Works” in Brisbane. His Biography can be seen HERE.  Both fitted with "barn doors" that we have come to regard as a "Queensland style". Maybe Hopes Body Works started the style in 1937. Cobber. |
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Post by griffin on Feb 16, 2013 11:00:31 GMT 10
I ran across this advertisement on Trove the other day and it might be of interest. It appeared in the Brisbane papers Sunday Mail on 23-5-1937 and in The Courier-Mail on 24-5-1937. George  |
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Post by Don Ricardo on Aug 23, 2022 11:15:56 GMT 10
Advert for Hope's Caravans published in the Brisbane Truth on Sunday, 19 September 1937 (page 13):_Sun_19Sept1937_p13_article205735567.png?width=1920&height=1080&fit=bounds) (Source: National Library of Australia nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205735567 ) This advert provides a photo of the entire caravan only partially visible in the item from the English The Caravan Magazine posted by Cobber higher up this thread. It is interesting to see that the caravan has a raised section in part of the roof, presumably to provide greater head room in that section of the van, as well as a couple of lantern roof style vents along the roof line of the side walls of the van.
But also of interest is the 'midget caravan' built on the one-wheeled Raceway chassis. It is effectively a teardrop caravan consisting of just a double bed (no rear galley it would seem) attached to the vehicle's rear bumper or some type of double tow bar. I don't think we've ever seen one of those in real life but it would be a bit of a head turner, or maybe a head scratcher... Don Ricardo
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