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Rick
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 3:43 pm Post subject: And still they turn up |
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News of another old van that needs identifying, and ideally rescuing:
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"I have bought the what was the old post office in Newton Green, Suffolk.
There are lots of cobbled together outbuildings made for storage - part of which
is an old caravan. It has no makers name that I can see but I thought that
your members might be interested in identifying it and/or taking it on as a
restoration project.
There is a plate by the door, that I think is the retailers mark, which
says: A.S. Jenkinson Caravans, 80 Oxford Street, London W1. Tel. Langham 5606 - 7.
The caravan is in a pretty sorry state but has some interesting original
features such as the original sink and plug and glass gas mantles."
Rick
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Mytocon
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Location: Beds (but not the sleeping type)
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| My first thought was a Bluebird, then a Paladin (?). |
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old van man
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| Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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| looks like a 1950s, Berclay, A.S.Jenkinson was a huge caravan delership and where main agents for berclay caravans and a few more besides |
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Mytocon
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Location: Beds (but not the sleeping type)
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| Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Doh! 
If it is I hang my head in shame, I had it in mind that Berkeleys of that age had "diagonal stripes" pressed into the aluminium panels. They were made a few miles from me, and we had a Cavalier as well! |
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old van man
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| Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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Well ! that serves me right for not making a positive i.d. on the van. the body shape of this van was very popular in the fiftys and looking through my books the nearest i can find is a marsten .But going back to berkeley they started in around 1947 with the baronet, and through the 1950s produced a wide range of caravans from tourers to statics.
Your Cavailer came along in the late fiftys and the diagonal bands on the sides where just a fashion thing, that was in at the time, i.e. fairhome who were copiyed by bluebird and penguin to name just a few.
so most of the berkeleys up until the late 50s had stright sides, it was a big old range of vans and when i can get my head round posting pics on this forum i will put some berkleys on. |
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