Photos of old caravans

Yes I remember the reversing clip and the Scott stabiliser. The gaslights with the particular smell they gave off, glass and metal windows (not double glazed) which ran with condensation in the mornings, poor brakes on the van and incorrect car/van weight ratio. We put our lives at risk every time we hitched up, but 'we were happy'. They were certainly carefree days, if not so safe and I would not want to go back to the caravan standards of those days.

The old Eccles hitched to our Hillman Hunter was so heavy it cooked the auto box oil on our first encounter of a long slow incline. I overcame this by going to a breakers yard (remember those?) and found a transmission oil cooler on an old Yank that I fitted to the Hillman. Never had the problem again