Word: trailers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week William Jennings Bryan's daughter starts a two-month, 13-State speaking tour by automobile-and-trailer. Her chauffeur: her new husband, Captain Boerge Rohde of Denmark's Royal Guards...
...Glen Cove last week arrived Grain Broker Herbert L. Bodman on his yacht. He was returning from a three-week, six-horse cavalcade on which, followed by chauffeur & groom with Ford trailer containing stove, icebox and 200-lb. of oats, Broker Bodman, his wife, their son & daughter and two friends had ridden horseback 360 miles to Rutland...
Covered Wagon Co. has a history typical of the industry. Founder and president is bland, ruddy-chopped Arthur George Sherman, 46, son of a manufacturing biologist in whose plant he went to work in 1911. In 1928 he bought a trailer to take his five children camping. It was supposed to unfold into a tent in ten minutes, actually took hours. Exasperated, Biologist Sherman built a trailer which looked like an egg-crate but worked. His family still found it impractical for sleeping, however, because they encountered what U. S. trailermen now call "Trailer Tappers." "So many curious people banged...
...modern trailer is no longer an ugly wooden box. Anywhere from 14 to 30 feet long, it is a streamlined lozenge of light metal with curtained windows, chromium fittings, a simple swivel joint at the bow where it couples with the automobile. Inside, it is as compactly luxurious as the cabin of a small cruiser. A 14-footer may have three davenports which convert into beds, a stove, icebox, sink, large closets, table. A 20-footer may have two rooms, shower, chemical toilet, desk, chairs, breakfast nook. All sizes are neatly outfitted, with wood veneer on the walls, linoleum...
...knows how many trailer manufacturers there are. Estimates range from 300 to 2,000. Among the numerous small shops turning out trailers one at a time, there are a handful of real factories manufacturing them in volume on assembly lines. All are working at top speed, unable to meet the demand. Since 1933 demand for trailers has at least trebled every year. Last year there were some 250,000 on U. S. highways. Last week Covered Wagon Co. of Mt. Clemens, Mich., largest manufacturer in the business, doubled the size of its paint shop to keep pace with a production...