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[pigtin]

Have just had a few days R and R in a remote corner of Romney Marsh, on a visit to the wild beaches of Dungeness point I spotted these two interesting caravans: the ali job has been there for as long as I can remember and is probably used as an extra room for the shack alongside. There is not a pole growing up through the middle of it as the photo suggests, but it says a lot for the quality of the bodywork that it has been exposed to the salt air for so many years, yet shows no signs of corrosion.

I am no expert on caravans but thought they looked interesting, whatever they are?

Don.
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t103/donthebat/dungecaravan.jpg


http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t103/donthebat/dungecaravan1.jpg

[Penman]

Hi
Surely the ali job is an Airstream?

[Rick]

wow the Airstream is a bit of alright - handy size too, many of them are quite long but that would tow well behind even medium sized cars..

R
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[buzzy bee]

Hi

That house/shed looks interesting, looks like it is made entirely of corugated iron!

Sorry I know I should be looking at the vans, but I like to look at the background of pictures!

Cheers

Dave

[pigtin]

Well spotted Buzzy. That is the essence of Dungeness, almost every dwelling is of black tar-boarded and corrugated iron construction.
If I may go off topic, here is the dwelling of the late Derek Jarman (the memsahib tells me he was a famous artist). Typical of the Dungeness fishermans dwellings. We have stayed in one a couple of times and they are very nice inside.
Don.
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t103/donthebat/derekjarman.jpg

[Penman]

Hi
http://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/news/features/jarman.shtml

[Brian M]

The other small caravan is a Suleica from Germany, made (I think) by a company called Shafer in Germany from 1960 - mid 70's.

It is all fibreglass including most of the interior - beds, cupboards etc.

I was pitched next to one when I went to the French International meeting in 2005.

Probably why it has also survived the salt air.

[SLEEPY JOHN]

Pigtin, you'll doubtless know this but for the benefit of anyone who goes to Dungeness, pay close attention to the little houses. Many of them are built around grounded Victorian railway carriages and have been there since the twenties.

If you want a look inside one of these constructions there's a small art gallery by the miniature railway station that is built this way.

I recommend a visit out there as it's another world altogether and you can get the freshest fish and chips anywhere.

John

P.S. It occurs to me that the carriages sort of qualify as transport without wheels!!

[Tam]

Hi,

The Airstream would look fab with a little tlc...

The white one is not a Suleica as we have one of those and all the old brochures etc...

This one is a Fahti 600 (earlymodel). These are very similar to the Biod Extase as I believe they used the same moulds for a while. You are correct that it is all fiberglass (as is the Suleica).

Fahti Photo: http://www.volvoniacs.org/fahti/
Biod Photo: http://pub10.bravenet.com/photocenter/album.php?img=17673&usernum=811173604

Nice to see some other continental oldies in the UK... Can't wait to get ours finished and out on the road!

[Rick]

Roy got in touch (he's not on the forum), with some more info on the fibreglass van that pigtin photo'd last year, he also sent a pic of the chassis plate which I'll add here later:

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Reference the "Spotted at Dungeness" post of the 16th September 2007, the small plastic caravan is indeed German.
According to the plate on the towbar, it was manufacturesd by Josef Peitz, Sennelager, Westfalia.
The type is PAV/SR 0.85. As far as I can work out from the plate, it left the works in December 1977
The serial no is F1227. The MIRO is 500kg and the MTPLM is 850kg.
It is indeed all glass fibre and plastic. When I saw it in August/September 2006, the interior had been stripped out prior to restoration.
The owner told me that it had been found floating in a canal in Holland.

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