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Post by tinnie on May 1, 2007 21:50:39 GMT 10
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Post by Don Ricardo on May 1, 2007 23:49:42 GMT 10
Thanks for sharing the link Tinnie. You're right it is an interesting read.
I find it interesting that the vans in both the Museum Victoria and the National Museum in Canberra are both relatively late 1950's V V's. I suppose the curators judge that this is the point in time when caravanning became part of the generalised 'Australian dream', and maybe that is true. All the same, we are aware from the forum that V V's were popular well before the mid-50's. It would be nice to see one of the older V V's being incorporated into a museum collection at some stage. Maybe we need to do a bit of lobbying...
Don Ricardo
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Post by cobber on May 2, 2007 7:58:42 GMT 10
Thanks Tinnie, Old caravans on show in museums must be popular, or they wouldn't be there. Don, I suspect we are in a period when the 50's is nostalgia... anything before that is history  Cobber... vintage  |
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Post by wildmanaus on May 2, 2007 19:03:58 GMT 10
Great story I like to see stories about the prim times
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Post by Don Ricardo on May 2, 2007 21:06:08 GMT 10
Very nicely expressed point, Cobber. I suspect you're right.
Don Ricardo...very close to history ;D
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Post by tinnie on May 2, 2007 22:42:18 GMT 10
Don and Cobber, Interesting thoughts. I guess anything form the fifties is now 'half a century' old. When I think about it, my 3 oldest vans that have a combined age of about 130 years. Many of the members on this forum regularly tow around 50+ year old vans, the odd few, such as Erlee, have 70 year old vans. It would be an interesting (and mathematically challenging) excercise to have all active contributors to the forum add up the age of all of their vans, and then add that together. I think we'd collectively be back in the Ice Age! My current vans (including onsite and the kids cubby) approx combined age 228 years.  Tinnie  |
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Post by Don Ricardo on May 7, 2007 21:11:18 GMT 10
A few weeks ago on this thread, we were discussing why the caravans in museum collections are all 50's vans. The following quote from the Curator of the National Museum in Canberra probably says it all:
Curator Guy Hansen said: “The National Museum is interested in caravans because they are a very good example of Australian holiday and leisure culture. Although caravans had existed prior to World War II it was not until the 1950s that increased access to motor vehicles and greater leisure time allowed caravanning to become a truly popular past time." He said the Propert Trailway Products Company was one of a large number of small caravan manufacturing companies which tried to take advantage of this growing market.(The quote is from an article about the National Museum's pink Property in the May edition of Caravanning News, which Firefighter alerted us to: vintagecaravans.proboards30.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=1178506849&page=1 Thanks Firefighter.) It would still be nice to get an earlier caravan into a collection somewhere. Maybe we just need to work towards a 'National Caravan Museum'...but then that woud take some of our vans off the road and who wants that? Don Ricardo |
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Post by cobber on May 8, 2007 18:11:05 GMT 10
Tinnie... Don ! Are you suggesting that anybody who has a pre war caravan should donate it to a museum ....... good idea, some people have done it. Last year on the way home from the Morgan rally we called into the Birdwood Motor Museum because somebody told me they had a couple of V V's, and so they did. This was after I had looked at ol’36 but not yet bought it. The sight of the van at Birdwood could have been the catalyst that convinced me to buy ol’ 36. So many similarities in their design.   The other bloke who has a stockpile of old vans is at Buangor in Victoria, it would make a grown man cry to see what is happening to that lot. Then there is the bloke in W A who seems to be getting a reasonable collection together too. Big problem is that not many really old V V's have surfaced yet, they must be out there somewhere. Cobber. |
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Post by runescape on Nov 13, 2007 8:50:18 GMT 10
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