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Post by firefighter on Jul 17, 2011 16:37:38 GMT 10
Picked this Romany road caravans lapel badge up last week at the local sunday market All I need now is the van to go with it .....I don't think we have a romany road caravan on the forum ? f/f ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by cobber on Jul 17, 2011 16:58:13 GMT 10
All I need now is the van to go with it .....I don't think we have a romany road caravan on the forum ? f/f ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I don't think even Mark T has found a Romany Road van ........... yet F/F.......... can you send the badge to me and I'll take a better photo of it to post for you Cobber.
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Post by floozy on Jul 30, 2011 22:15:08 GMT 10
Well you have some competition if you are looking for a Romany vardo. One sold in Victoria about 12 months ago... yep I found out months too late. Pretty good chance it went to a horse breeder/owner.
I am also a member of a forum re Gypsy Cobbs - a breed of horses preferred by Roma - which is getting a kick off here in Australia. They are beautiful little draft type horses with a great temperament.
Now having mentioned that I have purchased plans for a Gypsy vardo from a builder in the UK, a few got a bit keen to see the process of building and the final product.
I havent got started on the build yet - too many other things happening. But it is in the pipline.
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 31, 2011 22:12:31 GMT 10
G'day Floozy, Intreresting to read about your interest in Gypsy Cobbs and Romany style caravans. I hadn't heard the term 'vardo' before - had to look it up in in Wikipedia. It wasn't even in my Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. As you've no doubt noticed, a few of the Australian caravan manufacturers chose a brand name which had a gypsy connection over the years. I think the earliest was Romany Road which was building caravans in Melbourne prior to WWII. Post-war there was also a Romany brand caravan built in Tasmania. And then of course there was the Gypsyland (also sometimes named the Gipslyland) built in Melbourne, and Gypsy caravans from Sydney. Not to forget Roma caravans which continue on even today. None of them look at like a Romany vardo though, despite their names! Don Ricardo
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Post by griffin on Aug 1, 2011 17:15:07 GMT 10
Not to derail this thread but another name with Gypsy connotation used for caravans is Vagabond. I have information that GMH paid Fowler Road Maintenance Co. Pty Ltd. of South Melbourne for the rights to use the name for their convertible Vauxhall in the 1950s. Fowler produced the Vagabond Master Trailer which was fitted with a gas producer or a vacuum unit and I have seen a brochure and advertising for them. I can't find anything that Fowler produced a Vagabond caravan but the name comes up used by other caravan makers who advertised a Vagabond model in their range.
Firstly for Caravan Park (described just as lightweight) in 1946. Luxury Caravans at Crows Nest in 1946, described their Vagabond as a 'new palatial 4-berth model' and Caravan Centre offered a 14ft Vagabond in 1950.
I've never seen anything specific or any illustrations for any of them however. Why is it so??
It's a great name, conjures up all sorts of wanderings, just imagine if Leigh found one to tow with his Vagabond.
George
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Post by cobber on Aug 1, 2011 19:35:38 GMT 10
G'day George, Don't worry about screwing up threads mate..... it happens all the time We do have an advertisement for the 14ft Caravan Centre “Vagabond” in DHL but as you say, they have studiously avoided giving us a photo of one. Also the Luxury “Vagabond” is not shown, but then I think we have a suspicion that “Luxury” were at times badged engineered, and they look a lot like “Caraparks” if you ask me. And I wouldn't put big money on “Caravan Centre” not being into “badge swapping” either. But never the less it is true to say Vagabond does conjure up images of just drifting around the country side at ones leisure....... so why would you not call a caravan “Vagabond”...... or "Roma".... or "Gypsy" Cobber.
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