The Story of Trailer and It's Actors; As a Mobile Home Case _ Nur Gülgör Thesis

THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE TRAILER IN FOUR PERIODS
Culture /
Trailers (Automobile) Industry Crisis Sociological Groups Periods
Before FORD T ( 1717 - 1908) FORD T to World War II (1908 - 1939)
Transient Families
1)Temporary Traveler;
a)Temporary Transient is the group travelling to reach a specific
point (emigrants),
b)Travel Tourist is the group travelling frequently for fun (camping
tourism),
2) Roader is the group being on the road except recreational reasons
(migrant/seasonal workers, job-hunters, health seekers, homeless
tourist, itinerant traders),
3) Mobile Dependent is the group has nomadic lifestyle and full
time mobile (gypsies, mobile families)
European Colonization of the America (Emigrants)
Tuberculosis Epidemic (The Health Seeker)
Wagons
1717, Conestoga Wagon
1861 - 1865 American Civil War
“Trailerites”
1) Temporary Traveler/Vacationer is the group they own homes and just live in trailers for a few months
of the year (middle aged professional men, categories of jobs that take long vacations or have flexible
hours, retired people, tin can tourist),
2) Roader is the group being on the road except recreational reasons (eople looking for job, seasonal
laborers, salesmen and construction workers, individuals whose occupations are in high demand across
the country),
3) Non Mobile Trailerite is the group that lives in a trailer permanently as fixed and mostly economic
reasons (unemployment people, retired people)
4) Mobile Dependent is the group has nomadic lifestyle and full time mobile (gypsies, mobile families,
retired people, tin can tourists),
1910 - 1940 Tin Can Tourist
1929 - 1939 Great Depression
1860 - 1920s Camping Culture with Wagons 1920 Mobile Living in Trailer/RV
Coaches / Camping Cars
1880, Herdic Coach
Auto Camping
20th c., L.A. municipal Auto Camp
Camping Auto
1920, Folding Camp Trailer
Travel Trailer
1928, Aerocar
19th century, Prairie Schooner
1889, McMaster Camping Car
1917, AutoTent Outfit by J.H. Witmann
1911, DuPont Camping Auto 1939, Airstream Superliner
1864, Howard Ambulance Wagon
1897, J. Olson’s “houses of wheels”
1920, Auto bed advertisement
1915, Telescopic Camping Apartment 1936 Schult Trailer Coaches
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