In a message dated 11/28/00 10:02:04 AM Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Just out of curiosity - As I remember it, there were
some pipe-frame holdovers in ('52?) --
My question is, do they happen to have the traditional
"bread-loaf" frontend (flat glass) and the late 40's
style rear-end? (round glass.)
I've always wondered about this -- I saw an airstream
for sale in the spring for (I think) $500 - thought it
was unlikely that it came original like that, and then
saw (I think) the same trailer for sale not too long
ago for $1500.
I think it was the same trailer because it appeared to
have 1960's Ford Fairlane taillights... you don't see
that too often (and it was in New Jersey.)
anyway - that is all.
Toby 2029
>>
Toby:
The 1953 Airstream catalog contains line drawings of pipe frame trailers
with a flat 13 panel (Wonder bread) front end and a round (french bread loaf)
rear end. The catalog states trailers can be ordered with two round ends,
one round and one flat end, or two flat ends. Though shown in drawings in
the 1953 catalog, I'm not sure pipe frame trailers were still being
manufactured that year. Pipe frames may already have been replaced by ladder
frames notwithstanding the catalog illustrations, which may have been
carried over from earlier years without updating.
My 18' pipe frame Clipper s/n 5077 has a round rear end and a flat front
end with two casement type windows. It is titled as a 1953 but that is not
determinative. We are unsure of the year of manufacture, but think it may be
1950. I have seen photos of one other trailer with a flat front and round
rear end. They were made but probably in small numbers.
Fred Coldwell
VAC Archive Historian
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