Our Touring Past

Baravans were built in Western Australia.

1968 Baravan Caravan Brochure.

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1937 Vagabond Caravan Brochure. ( American )
The Vagabond caravan is a coach style caravan with a very unusual draw bar.

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Glen Caravans began in the early 1940's with Mr Lewis and Matthews in their workshop at 820 Glenhuntly Rd. Glenhuntly Victoria.

Linda and I have just come back from a bit of a promotional run for the website. We stoped in at the brand new motor museum at Forbes and I can guarantee it is well worth a look. The McFeeters have done an excellent job with about 60 cars on display including a mezzanine floor. In their collection i...

Overview. Caravanning is one of the oldest forms of travelling in reasonable comfort known to man. Merchants and travellers were using crude versions of our modern caravans to travel overland along the worlds trade routes. Gypsies, showman etc have been using caravans for the last 500 years at leas...

http://i554.photobucket.com/albums/jj433/ourtouringpast/Chesney1.jpg Chesney Caravans. 621-627 Gympie Rd. Chermside. Queensland (click on address for location) Chesney caravans were originally started in Queensland and by the mid 70's was one of Australias largest caravan manufactures. The followin...

The following two photos are of Mr Priest of Adelaide who, in 1936 drove his 1933 Ford and home built caravan from Adelaide to Melbourne and back. The first photo shows the caravan lowered for travel with Mr Priest standing in front. The second photo shows the caravan set up, even with a set of rear...

Motor Manual Goodwill Club

Original photo of a home made 1942 teardrop caravan using motor bike wheels.
I came across this unusual little teardrop caravan at Katoomba in 2008.

I hope you all had a Verry Merry Christmas. Linda and I have been away for a couple of weeks and we covered about 1500 km in my ute with Daisy in tow. We travel from home to Cowra , Young and then down through Victoria and back up the Coast to spend a very relaxing 5 days with some very good friends...