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Post by sarahsusername on Jan 2, 2020 9:13:39 GMT 10
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Post by hughdeany on Jan 2, 2020 10:20:58 GMT 10
Hi Sarah,have you looked everywhere for numbers or names? Even on the chassis rails for something.
As I said on numerous other sites it could be an Adventurer or home made,we will see if anyone else comes up with something on here.
Cheers
Hughdeany
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Post by Roehm3108 on Jan 3, 2020 6:51:35 GMT 10
The only caravan I can think of with forward sloping windows like that is the Wayfarer. The cladding on the rear pic looks like a later addition.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jan 3, 2020 19:23:32 GMT 10
Hi Sarah,
I’ve been thinking about the origins of your caravan since I saw it on FB a few days ago. It’s a bit of puzzle. It has several distinctive features that should help us identify it...but haven’t yet! The features that are distinctive are the shape of the wheel arch, the shape of the front corner windows seen from the side, and the upswept bulkhead over the front windows.
Hughdeany has suggested the van is an Adventurer, and it has the distinctive shaped wheel arch very similar to later (ie mid-60’s) Adventurers, but I don’t know of any Adventurers with similar corner windows or the upswept bulkhead.
Roehm has suggested the van is a Wayfarer because of the shape of the windows, and the overall shape of the van could be Wayfarer too, but there is no Wayfarer I know with the same wheel arches or upswept bulkhead.
The most confounding feature is the upswept bulkhead. It is quite an unusual feature, because most vans of that era (including Adventurers and Wayfarers) had either a rounded bulkhead or a flat, vertical bulkhead.
I know this mightn’t help much, but hopefully mentioning those distinctive features might trigger a thought for someone about the van’s origins.
By the bye, the combination of aluminium cladding on the front, roof and rear, with the plywood sides, suggests it was built in the early to mid 60’s.
Don Ricardo
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