Cullis Expandable van

[cobber]

A 1946 patent application by John Herbert Cullis describing an 'Expandable caravan'
I don't think we have seen a real live example of this van........ Yet ?



The patent application can be seen if you click on this link :-

pericles.ipaustralia.gov.au/ols/auspat/pdfSource.do?fileQuery=%C2%8E%C2%A0«£¦%C2%9B%C2%9As%C2%98¨¥%C2%AD¤%5C%C2%9C%C2%9F¢%C2%9B¤%C2%97£%C2%9Bsw%C2%8Bgojlffjiofxfd¦%C2%9A%C2%9C%5C¥¬%C2%9B¨s%C2%98¨¥%C2%AD¤


Cobber.

[Don Ricardo]

Hi all,

This post proves that Cobber's wish is my command - even it it takes 8 years! (See above post)

Following is an article about the Cullis Expandable or Telescopic Caravan published in Pix magazine (Vol 19 No 12, pages 28 &29) on 22 March 1947:




(Source: National Library of Australia - click here)

Your wish is fulfilled, Cobber.

Don Ricardo

[nickd15]

Great article Richard. Imagine using the tow specs today. I think our cars are just over 14hp.

[cobber]

Thank you DCI Don Ricardo you have done very well, but actually I was hoping for a real live dust covered barn find example.
Surely such an innovative van would not be left to rot away in somebodies paddock, although judging by the patent application above, (that I have replaced with one that works ) I reckon she’d leak like a sieve.

constable cobber.

[Roehm3108]

Push-out side walls🙄🙄😲😲 Goes to show there's nothing new under the sun in caravans!!!

[Don Ricardo]

Additional photos of the Cullis Expandable caravan

The following photos were part of the photoshoot of the Cullis caravan for the Pix magazine article posted higher up this thread.

The photos were taken for Australian Consolidated Press by photographer Ivan Ives, most likely in early 1947. The full collection of photos from the photoshoot can be viewed here.










(Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales and Courtesy ACP Magazines Ltd)

Thanks to Woody99 (Andrew Woodmansey) for the link to the photos.