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The first examples of mobile homes can be traced back to the roaming bands of gypsies, who traveled with their horse drawn mobile homes as far back as the 1500s. In America, the first mobile homes were built in the 1870's, these were movable beach front properties, built in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina. The homes were moved by teams of horses.

Mobile homes as we know them today began in 1926, with automobile-pulled trailers or "Trailer Coaches", designed as a home away from home during camping trips. The trailers evolved into "Mobile Homes" brought into demand after World War II ended. Veterans came home to needing housing and finding it in short supply. "Mobile Homes" provided cheap and quickly built housing for the Veterans and their families (the beginning of the baby boom) and being mobile allowed the families to travel where the jobs were.

By 1943, trailers averaged a width of 8ft and were over 20ft in length, they had up to 3 to 4 separate sleeping sections but no bathrooms. By 1948, lengths had reached up to 30ft and bathrooms were introduced. Mobile homes continued to grow in length and widths such as doublewide.

In June of 1976, the United States Congress passed the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Act (42 U.S.C.), which assured that all homes were built to tough national standards. In 1980, Congress approved changing the  term 'Mobile Home' to 'Manufactured Home'.

 
       
   
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Rv.resourceaid.com
Information at your fingertips. http://rv.resourceaid.com/

Vintage Airstream.com
This site is dedicated to my love of....okay, my obsession with vintage Airstream travel trailers. http://www.vintageairstreamer.com/

Airstream Trailers.
AirstreamTrailers.com exists for people like you to find all the Airstream travel trailer resources you need including restoration, buying, selling, history, message boards and more!   http://www.airstreamtrailers.com/

Vintage Airstream Club
If you own or are dreaming of owning, a vintage  Airstream, you'll want to come back to this site again and again. It's also the place you can sign up for the best two e-mail discussion groups about Airstreams.  You'll love the photos archive plus the "For Sale" and "Want Ads" are first rate.   http://www.airstream.net

VintageAirstream.com
You'll love exploring this well-designed site.  RJ has assembled a photo index of every year and model of vintage Airstream.  His own experience restoring a '65 Caravel has been expertly documented in several helpful how-to articles.  Plus, he has a very good description on trailer polishing.   http://www.vintageairstream.com

Tin Can Tourist
Organized in 1919, the Tin Can Tourist is an organization committed to the celebration of classic trailers and motor coaches through annual gatherings of owners and friends.
If you love old campers and want to meet some very nice people with some awesome vintage campers, you need to join this group. 
http://www.tincantourists.com/

Airstream Web Ring
As more and more vintage trailer owners begin to use the internet, new sites are popping up to support the community.  The Web Ring lets you easily travel from site to site.
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=airstream;list

Maxitear Progress
Welcome To My Home Away From Home
This site is dedicated to my long lived interest in Vintage Style Travel Trailers.
http://www.maxitear.com

Winick Design
Vintage Airstreams
How can you resist the classic industrial modern lines of the Airstream?
After two years of searching found a 1968 17’ Caravel. Formerly purchased new and owned by a couple that lived in Pasadena, CA
New Website address: http://www.vintagetrailering.com/

Silver Avion
This sites purpose is to help preserve the classic "Silver Avion". It is intended to help owners maintain their units and develop a new group of owners interested in classic Avion and CAYO Travel Trailers, Truck Campers, Motor Homes, and Fifth Wheels.

http://www.silveravion.nieus.com

The FlatNose Society
Welcome to the ONLY site devoted to those old and loveable "FlatNose" Rvs from the 60s and 70s.
http://www.flatnosesociety.com

 

http://www.trailerworks.biz/

TrailerWorks is a full-service restoration company, dedicated to the job of saving one of the greatest American Icons - the traveltrailer.

We specialize in
Airstream and Spartan trailers, but we will work on any brand you like.

Where do we get our "Diamonds in the Rough?" Some of them come from our favorite supplier of vintage stuff - Vintage Campers.

http://www.vintagecampers.com/
 

Also...

Finding great rv jobs - campgrounds, resorts, national parks, recreation, marina, theme park, state park, ski resorts, recreational jobs, etc.   http://www.workamper.com/  

and...

    http://www.newrver.com/

 

Great Mobile Homes of Mississippi
A gallery of Mississippi mobile homes with accompanying commentary.

Mobile Home Directory
The everything directory for mobile homes, if you own one or want to.

 

 

 

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