Post by phargan on Jul 3, 2008 18:26:11 GMT 10
1950 Honeymoon Vin Van
At the launch of the Gold Coast City Council’s Heritage celebrations at Burleigh Heads Queensland in April ’08 I was approached just before we packed up my van by a lady and her mother who wanted to inspect my caravan. She was very impressed and we all took photos of each other and the mother, Mrs M. Flick said that the reason she was so interested was because she had spent her honeymoon with her husband touring in a caravan similar to mine. I asked her to let me have a photo and more information of her honeymoon van and a few weeks later received this picture of the van and tow vehicle. This is what her short notes said:-
Dear Paul,
Enclosed is a photo as promised on meeting you at Burleigh Heads last month. We hired this van in April 1950 from someone in Casino.
The highlight of our trip being – on opening the door (at our destination) we were greeted with pots and pans and all our clothes all over the floor. There were no locks on the cupboard!
I don’t remember what we paid for the van to hire it.
Good travelling,
M. Flick.
Later I asked her if I could post her story on the website and this was her answer:-
Dear Paul and Yoko,
Thanks for your letter.
Keith bought the Jeep, left hand drive, and had a canvas hood put on it. We owned it until it was traded in on our son’s first car. He paid 200 pounds for it and received 400 pounds 20 years later. It was the only vehicle we had. It was used for all farm jobs and for taking the produce to market.
It has spoiled Keith’s future driving as he expects all cars to go where the Jeep went!
Yes you can use any of our information if it is of interest to you.
Good travelling,
M. Flick.
From what I can see of the van, it only has a door and roof hatch without any signs of a window? That may be a good thing for a ‘honeymoon’ caravan.
At the launch of the Gold Coast City Council’s Heritage celebrations at Burleigh Heads Queensland in April ’08 I was approached just before we packed up my van by a lady and her mother who wanted to inspect my caravan. She was very impressed and we all took photos of each other and the mother, Mrs M. Flick said that the reason she was so interested was because she had spent her honeymoon with her husband touring in a caravan similar to mine. I asked her to let me have a photo and more information of her honeymoon van and a few weeks later received this picture of the van and tow vehicle. This is what her short notes said:-
Dear Paul,
Enclosed is a photo as promised on meeting you at Burleigh Heads last month. We hired this van in April 1950 from someone in Casino.
The highlight of our trip being – on opening the door (at our destination) we were greeted with pots and pans and all our clothes all over the floor. There were no locks on the cupboard!
I don’t remember what we paid for the van to hire it.
Good travelling,
M. Flick.
Later I asked her if I could post her story on the website and this was her answer:-
Dear Paul and Yoko,
Thanks for your letter.
Keith bought the Jeep, left hand drive, and had a canvas hood put on it. We owned it until it was traded in on our son’s first car. He paid 200 pounds for it and received 400 pounds 20 years later. It was the only vehicle we had. It was used for all farm jobs and for taking the produce to market.
It has spoiled Keith’s future driving as he expects all cars to go where the Jeep went!
Yes you can use any of our information if it is of interest to you.
Good travelling,
M. Flick.
From what I can see of the van, it only has a door and roof hatch without any signs of a window? That may be a good thing for a ‘honeymoon’ caravan.
little caravan Phargan, thanks for sharing Mrs Flick's story & photo.
.......but the Gypsy 10 definately had windows...