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« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2021, 12:36:22 pm » |
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Neat. Pretty cool.
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« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2021, 08:11:21 pm » |
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Even "pop-out" on campers go back before 1900. Here's an 1894 patent on a "hunting wagon" with canvas covered pop-up sections.  |
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« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2021, 11:26:55 pm » |
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That's very similar to modern designs, although I don't think I've seen one with a pop-out at the front as well as the sides. Maybe the modern ones should take a lead from the past.
Yours,
Miranda.
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« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2021, 11:05:12 pm » |
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I've just had time to watch the videos. Nice kit! It would put a lot of modern set-ups to shame. Yours, Miranda. |
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« Reply #6 on: March 31, 2021, 08:23:34 pm » |
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What an impressive trailer - you grandfather's design was so clever and well executed, well worth the undoubted hard work the restoration is taking, which looks like it's going really well. Yours, Miranda. P.S. We ended up extending our trailer tent when our girls wanted a sleeping 'pod' each rather than sharing one, and I nearly destroyed my sewing machine making up the new tenting (if that's even a word)... |
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« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2021, 12:02:20 am » |
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P.S. We ended up extending our trailer tent when our girls wanted a sleeping 'pod' each rather than sharing one, and I nearly destroyed my sewing machine making up the new tenting (if that's even a word)...
I imagine you really need an industrial sewing machine for canvas etc. My father-in-law was a leatherworker, so we have used it to stitch leather for gaiters, etc. Sorontar |
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« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2021, 11:53:43 pm » |
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P.S. We ended up extending our trailer tent when our girls wanted a sleeping 'pod' each rather than sharing one, and I nearly destroyed my sewing machine making up the new tenting (if that's even a word)...
I imagine you really need an industrial sewing machine for canvas etc. My father-in-law was a leatherworker, so we have used it to stitch leather for gaiters, etc. Sorontar Definitely that would have been preferable, and one with a much longer gap for the meterial between the base and needle arm; trying to manipulate multiple metre runs of hevy fabric and push it through a relatively tiny gap was rather trying, to say the least. Yours, Miranda. |
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« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2021, 05:39:28 pm » |
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We forget that in past centuries folk were far more itinerant and mobile. Traveling from the cities for seasonal work, relocating for slum clearance and employment. Luxury holidays for the affluent. Military deployment andnbattle fronts. Religious pilgrimage. Slower transport methods. Immigration.
They learned how to travel light weight in cramped circumstances. They lived in smaller homes with less household and personal goods. We could learn from this
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