Furness Caravans.

[Richard]

The following link will take you back to the main website to look at the Furness brochures.

Brochure Collection

The following brochure is on a 1948 Furness 14' caravan.

1950 12' Furness caravan.

[Richard]

1956 Furness ad. With the "Special 12" model for Holden cars, which I assume is a 12 foot model.

[griffin]

I got all excited just before Christmas after receiving a Trading Post link to a Vauxhall car and Furness van for sale in Adelaide.
It was for sale as a unit, a 1950 L Velox and 1949 Furness. Just what I need, another Vauxhall I rang the sellers, Price's Caravans, and had a chat to someone. The van had been 'refurbished' and the car had been obtained to period match the van for some publicity from what I understood. The car had been resprayed to match the van but it 'needed work' which was a bit off putting. So what about the price? The chap said he had no idea but said there had been interest from a museum in W.A. and he would be happy with $20-25,000. That's about where the conversation ended for me, it is a long way to go for me to check it out, although I did try and get someone to do it for me to no avail. I know around $6000 will get a good L Velox so the van looked a bit expensive.
These are the photographs posted with the ad.

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Anyway, at least we have some photos for posterity, it will be interesting to see if anyone considered it worth the money. I tended to feel it was more intended to get the punters in the door to look at vans.
The last two photos show an interesting feature, what appears to be a little gaol bed with sliding bars, Richard thought it might be an infants crib. I wonder if it was a standard feature?

George

[Richard]

Iam slowly going through boxes of brochures that I have had sitting collecting dust,

so here is the first a Post War 10 page Furness Caravans brochure featuring the four berth model.

Its interesting that someone had jotted down a couple of prices for the
10 ft and 14 ft shells only.
And the weight for the 14 ft at 18 1/2 cwt, and 10 ft at 16 1/2 cwt
(about 825 kg) which would be fairly heavy for a 10 ft caravan

[Richard]

Pre war baby furnace brochure recently on ebay.