Seen at the RV/MH Hall of Fame. This 1968 Jayco Tent Trailer was number 40 in the first year of production. Restoration by Jayco. Jayco, Inc., a subsidiary of Thor Industries, is an American manufacturer of recreation vehicles. The company manufactures fold-down (also called ‘pop-up’) camping trailers, conventional travel trailers, toy haulers, fifth-wheel travel trailers, and motorhomes (Class A and C). Jayco is based in Middlebury, Indiana, and about three-quarters of its 3,200-person workforce is from the Amish and Mennonite communities of Indiana. The company was founded in 1968 by Lloyd and Bertha Bontrager. Bontrager developed a trailer fold-down system in 1967 and started the business of making travel trailers in two chicken houses and a barn. In the first year of operations the company sold 132 trailers, and by the end of 1968 it had 15 employees. The RV/MH Hall of Fame is a museum in Elkhart, Indiana that features a variety of historical recreational vehicles from Airstream, Winnebago and other American makers. Founded in 1972 as the Recreational Vehicle/Manufactured Housing Heritage Foundation, the museum opened in 1991 and in 2007, moved into its current location. The foundation is a non-profit organization. The primary building, Founders Hall, is complete with artificial trees and other plants to create a simulated RV campground. The museum features a variety of recreation vehicles dating back 100 years and continuing through the 1980s. The oldest vehicle on display is a 1913 Earl Travel Trailer and is the oldest surviving specimen known. The oldest Winnebago and the smallest Airstream ever built are also to be found in the museum.—Wikipedia
Seen at the RV/MH Hall of Fame. This 1915 Model T Ford with 1916 Telescope Apartment is a unique unit built in California on the back of a Model T Ford roadster. A novel feature is multiple slide-outs on this vintage model. The unit slides into a truck bed, with a center section that telescopes toward the truck cab top provide sleeping for two. In addition to a fold-down exterior kitchen, there's a shower that draws water warmed by the truck's radiator. The RV/MH Hall of Fame is a museum in Elkhart, Indiana that features a variety of historical recreational vehicles from Airstream, Winnebago and other American makers. Founded in 1972 as the Recreational Vehicle/Manufactured Housing Heritage Foundation, the museum opened in 1991 and in 2007, moved into its current location. The foundation is a non-profit organization. The primary building, Founders Hall, is complete with artificial trees and other plants to create a simulated RV campground. The museum features a variety of recreation vehicles dating back 100 years and continuing through the 1980s. The oldest vehicle on display is a 1913 Earl Travel Trailer and is the oldest surviving specimen known. The oldest Winnebago and the smallest Airstream ever built are also to be found in the museum.—Wikipedia
Seen at the RV/MH Hall of Fame. The 1939 Lindbergh Travel Trailer was designed in San Carlos, California, by an engineer of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel. It was custom-built for famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, hence its name. Skinned in aluminum to reduce weight and enhance appearance, the trailer boasts two axles, one at each end. The design gave the trailer a great deal of stability when parked for overnight stops and did not require that the tongue be supported on jacks when unhitched from the tow vehicle. The Bowlus Road Chief is an American luxury travel trailer with a front door, aerodynamic shape and polished aluminum body. Hawley Bowlus designed and built the Road Chief using his knowledge of aircraft construction. Bowlus was a designer, aerospace engineer and the builder of the Spirit of St. Louis aircraft. Aspects of the design were used on the first aluminum-body Airstream trailers, the Airstream Clipper. From 1934 to 1936, over eighty Bowlus Road Chiefs were built but Bowlus stopped producing the trailers in 1936. Production of a modernized enlarged Road Chief resumed in 2013 in Oxnard, California. Approximately half of the original Bowlus Road Chiefs have survived and a vintage Bowlus Road Chief sold for $187,000 at auction. The RV/MH Hall of Fame is a museum in Elkhart, Indiana that features a variety of historical recreational vehicles from Airstream, Winnebago and other American makers. Founded in 1972 as the Recreational Vehicle/Manufactured Housing Heritage Foundation, the museum opened in 1991 and in 2007, moved into its current location. The foundation is a non-profit organization. The primary building, Founders Hall, is complete with artificial trees and other plants to create a simulated RV campground. The museum features a variety of recreation vehicles dating back 100 years and continuing through the 1980s. The oldest vehicle on display is a 1913 Earl Travel Trailer and is the oldest surviving specimen known. The oldest Winnebago and the smallest Airstream ever built are also to be found in the museum.—Wikipedia
