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The Nest was a smaller and lower priced trailer than any in the Airstream line, but at the upper end of prices for its market segment. Airstream moved the company to Ohio and expanded staff for production with Airstream Nest trailers scheduled to be available in early 2018. [5] The Airstream Nest was withdrawn from the market in September 2020.
One vehicle prototype was the 1942–1943 Crosley CT-3 "Pup," a lightweight, single-passenger, four-wheel-drive vehicle that was transportable and air-droppable from a C-47 Skytrain. Six of the 1,125-pound (510 kg), 2-cylinder Pups were deployed overseas after undergoing tests at Fort Benning, Georgia , but the project was discontinued due to ...
Interior of a Reading vardo, as used by the Romanichal, donated to the transport museum in Glasgow by a family from the Scottish village of Rhu.. A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home.
Caravans in New Zealand. In New Zealand the term caravan is used, but campervans or motorhomes may be called motor caravans. [7] New Zealand has hundreds of free camping sites and campervans and motorhomes are popular ways to access the sites. However, at the end of 2023 they enacted tighter regulations – especially in regards to the toilet ...
Coachman Caravans Company Limited was set up in 1986 on a green-field site at its current manufacturing base on the Sutton Fields Industrial Estate in Hull. The company was set up to produce touring caravans , vehicles equipped for living in, typically towed by a car and used for holidays [ 1 ] and also known as a travel trailer in the United ...
Land Rover began work on a lightweight version to fit the specifications in 1965. [1] A new modification to the basic Series IIA was devised by making many body components easily detachable and removing many non-essential items. The result was the Land Rover Half-Ton, known widely as the Lightweight or Airportable. In practice, to reduce weight ...
Samuel Alper OBE (25 April 1924 – 2 October 2002) [1] was an English caravan designer and manufacturer responsible for the famous Sprite caravan, founder of the Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants, a viticulturist who revived the ancient Roman winery at Chilford Hall, a sculptor, the founder of the Curwen Print Study Centre for teaching printmaking and a philanthropist who sent ...
Berkeley Cars Ltd / ˈ b ɑːr k l iː / was a British car manufacturer based in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire.The company produced economical sporting microcars with motorcycle-derived engines from 322 cc to 692 cc and front wheel drive between 1956 and 1960.