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

Master degree thesis in Mef University, Alternative Architectural Practices

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Table of Contents

LIST OF FIGURES...................................................................................VII

INTRODUCTION...................................................................................XIII

DICTIONARY...........................................................................................XVI

TIMELINE..............................................................................................XVIII

CHAPTER 1: THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRAILERS IN

FOUR PERIODS............................................................................................1

1.1 Wagons before Ford T (1717 - 1908).............................1

Covered Wagons...........................................................1

Ambulance Wagons ..................................................5

Coaches and Camping Cars .................................8

Transient Families......................................................11

1.2 Trailer Industry from Ford t to World War II.....17

Ford Model T and Auto Camping......................17

Camping Auto............................................................20

Travel Trailers..............................................................23

Great Depression and Trailer Boom.............28

Trailerites and Trailer Parks...............................30

1.3 Trailer to Manufactured Home after WWII......37

War Time Trailers ....................................................37

Housing Shortage....................................................40

Trailer to Manufactured Home.........................41

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