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Post by grandad on Sept 12, 2018 18:55:06 GMT 10
I know this sub-forum is usually reserved for member's build, but it is after all officially called 'Members Photo Album' and I'd like to offer a couple of photos of Vintage Vans. They're both taken in Victoria in either 1962 or 3 If anyone can identify the vans, perhaps they'd be of more use in the correct thread in DHL. The one with the Pontiac is a rented caravan my Dad hired for the weekend, I suspect the second would be the same park. I don't recall going to any other caravan park in those years. Cheers Jim   |
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Post by hughdeany on Sept 12, 2018 20:23:26 GMT 10
Hi Jim,
The first one in the top photo is a Franklin,as is the one behind the Pontiac,2nd and last one I just can’t remeber the name at present! 5th one is a Don,then a Viscount.
The one behind the Pontiac seems to have a different stripe to the usual Franklin.
Nice photos.
Cheers
hughdeani
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Post by Roehm3108 on Sept 13, 2018 7:08:49 GMT 10
The front roofline of the third van in the top pic looks like it has the lines of a NZ Crusader.
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Post by grandad on Sept 13, 2018 8:57:18 GMT 10
hughdeany, you never cease to amaze me. Thank you.
Seeing as the two caravans most clearly visible are both Franklins, I wonder if I should move them to DHL.
Franklin1, are you around for comment please?
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Post by hughdeany on Sept 13, 2018 10:05:00 GMT 10
Hi Roehm,
Can’t be a Crusader,they didn’t start till about 1967 and weren’t imported until 1969.
In having a closer look,it could be a Don Cadet!Maybe😳
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 13, 2018 11:02:38 GMT 10
The front roofline of the third van in the top pic looks like it has the lines of a NZ Crusader. Hi Roehm, I think the third and fourth caravans are quite quite closely aligned, so that it makes the third caravan looks as if it's got a "crested" roof like a Crusader. but there are actually two separate vans. I've used the word 'crested' for a roof that has a v-shaped roof with a higher line down the middle, because I can't think of the proper word! Such rooves are very common on UK and European caravans. Hughdeany - or anyone else - can you tell me what the proper word is? Don Ricardo |
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Post by hughdeany on Sept 13, 2018 12:14:14 GMT 10
Hi Don Ricardo,
I’ve always heard those rooves referred to as a “boat roof”!
Cheers
hughdeani
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Post by shesgotthelook on Sept 13, 2018 13:31:02 GMT 10
Lantern Roof  I thought it was too, but on closer inspection, just two standard roofed vans very close to each other. PS how do I stop my words creating hyperlinks? Driving me nuts |
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Post by Geoff & Jude on Sept 13, 2018 14:20:35 GMT 10
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Post by shesgotthelook on Sept 13, 2018 17:59:50 GMT 10
Thanks GnJ, I had forgotten about that. Just have to do it on my laptop too.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Sept 13, 2018 19:06:48 GMT 10
Hi Hughdeany and SGTL, Thanks for your suggestions. 'Lantern roof' is not quite what I was thinking of - that applies when a whole section of the roof is raised. But Hughdeany's reference to 'boat roof' is closer to what I was thinking of, and the word boat brought to mind the phrase I was trying to think of - 'keel roof'. I've seen English vans described with that term before. Of course a keel is usually pointed downwards, whereas the peak in the roof of a caravan like the Crusaders is pointing upwards. So I checked the dictionary: "Keel. Architecture: a projecting molding the profile of which consists of two ogees symmetrically disposed about an arris or fillet." Yep, just what I was thinking to myself...huh! what!  Checking another source, a 'keel arch' is defined "as a pointed arch having an S-shape on both sides" and elsewhere as an "ogee arch". So there you go. I guess the raised line of a caravan in question could be seen as having a pointed arch. Hughdeany, as an aside, when we were in the north of Scotland recently we saw a number of sheds which had been built using a large upturned rowing boat or half a boat as a roof. Presumably the boats were no longer seaworthy and had been re-purposed. Now that's definitely what you would call a 'boat roof'!  Anyway to return to the subject at hand after that little excursion, the third and fourth caravans in Grandad's photo are so close together they almost look like one van with a keel roof. Don Ricardo |
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Post by flynn on Sept 13, 2018 19:48:32 GMT 10
First van looks like one of the Flynn hire fleet, what state were you in, if not Victoria then I’m wrong.
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Post by grandad on Sept 14, 2018 8:44:33 GMT 10
We were in Victoria flynn. The picture of the Franklin being towed by a Pontiac is Philip Island. I'm 'presuming" the second photo is as well simply because that weekend was our only foray into caravaning in Australia that i can remember.
It was indeed a rental for the weekend.
We lived in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne if that helps
Jim
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Post by flynn on Sept 14, 2018 17:23:49 GMT 10
Thanks for responding,
The van behind the Ponti is most certainly a Franklin, but I pretty sure the one in the first photo is a Flynn hire van, they were all painted in the same livery, there were about six of them ranging from 13’, 15’, and one tandem 18’, I remember them well, it was my job to wash them for pocket money when they came back in.
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