Old boats, wooden boat building and restoration – Gavin Atkin's weblog
Mar20
Dorma owner and pal Steve Taylor sent us this link to a priceless piece of 1950s British Pathe film clip promoting yet another great British product that as usual never caught on – though I’d guess that it will catch the interest of some of our friends in the USA. See it here.
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Joseph St. Clair Mar 22nd 2010 at 01:04 am 1
Perhaps it would have caught on if it was more of a RV. it being a trailer and needing to be launched by hand is probably what doomed it to fail. Also the motor being inside like it is could cause CO2 poisioning. I’m sure being inside wile the motor was runing was not pleasant. At that time most motors were 2 cycle adding oil to the exhaust, yuck.
Paul Mullings Mar 22nd 2010 at 09:05 pm 2
The very same Alan Eckford who designed the Fleetwood dinghy and Spitfire yacht. A fairly versatile gentleman you could say?
Max Mar 28th 2010 at 06:11 pm 3
More on Alan Eckford and his caravan
http://bursledonblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/sailing-spitfire-and-floating-caravan.html
jon duke Mar 30th 2010 at 03:05 am 4
Wow! that is cute… anyone got plans