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2 unusual facts about travel trailer


Screw-Jack

"Death of a Poet" relates a visit to a friend's trailer home that takes a number of bizarre twists before ending in violence.

William Gordon Stables

He is also notable as the first person to order a "gentleman’s caravan" from the Bristol Carriage Company, in which he travelled the length of Great Britain in 1885 (the subject of his book The Gentleman Gypsy).


Bartley Gorman

A documentary about Gorman was made by Shane Meadows in 1995, and Gorman lived in a caravan on grounds that had featured in the documentary.

Dorothy Maclean

After the Caddys became unemployed in 1962 they moved into a travel trailer near the village of Findhorn.

Findhorn Foundation

He and Eileen settled in a caravan near the village of Findhorn; in early 1963 an annexe was built so that Dorothy Maclean could live close to the Caddy family.

Mendips Raceway

The latter is used for different classes of banger racing which sometimes involve towing caravans, or feature specialist vehicles such as hearses or Reliant Robins.

Rent control in England and Wales

The Caravan Sites Act 1968 made it unlawful, without the sanction of the courts, to deprive a person who occupied a caravan as a residence, whether owned or rented, on a caravan pitch that was protected (one that required a site licence under the 1960 Caravan Sites and Development Act).


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Martin Riggs

Riggs lives in a travel trailer on a beach along the Pacific Coast Highway in Los Angeles.