Anyone know about Travel Home caravans?

[noisypics]

Here is my delightful Travel Home Deluxe caravan, recently purchased from ebay. It has a (flip down to double bed) couch one end and a couch that turns into flip up bunk beds down the other. I don't have a date for it, but I believe these vans were made in Kilsyth. It's chassis number is 8784. Any info would be appreciated.
Noisypics.

[overlanda]

Some one fitted Viscount wheel spats over the years. They had a caravan shell on a stand on the roof of the factory in Canterbury road Kilsyth I think where Eastern Bargain centre is now.
I will look next time I am there. Regards Gerald

[noisypics]

I quite like the spats. Thanks for your reply. It's interesting how the Travel Home vans have the wrap around windows on the front (though squared off) like the Viscounts.
The van has a four seasons hatch, does this help date it? I am pretty clueless but learning plenty from the website.
Thanks, Noisypics

[Franklin1]

I'm not sure of the origins of Travel Home, but they seem to be more of a 1970s company than the 1960s. As overlanda says, they had a factory in Canterbury Rd., Kilsyth, and had a reputation for producing "high class caravan construction specialising in larger models but with a good range of smaller units." (so it was written in 1974.)

The van you've posted is from the middle of the 1970s. The wind-out windows were launched on the market in 1973, so your van is from that year or later. If it has the Starlight Four Seasons hatch as well, then it will be from 1974 or later.

cheers,
Al.

[overlanda]

If your van has a four seasons hatch it was build some time after 1976 as they were introduced around that time early Franklin's and some of the 60's Wayfarers had wrap around windows . The guy whom owned Tavelhome was the accounted at Wayfarer and started up when they closed up in 1969. I did my apprenticeship with some of the guys that worked there.
Regards Gerald

[noisypics]

Thanks Gerald and Al for your helpful info, I am enjoying finding out about the Travel Home and the Viscount, both of which I bought only recently. My first vans. I have a grand plan of a fabulous circle of caravans at our farm in Gippsland. We do have a house there but the caravan idea seemed like so much fun. My brother has bought an old Franklin Caravelle and we will start with a triangle of caravans until we can afford some more. While fixing the vans Iv'e had them parked out the front of our inner city home and received many visitors and caravan anecdotes from passersby. Very entertaining and social. I have found that if anyone actually sits down in the van the will still be there an hour later.
Thanks again,
Noisypics