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| A family desire to travel at minimum cost was realized
by building this inexpensive trailer.
By Eugen C. Winslow |
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Headroom exceeds six feet with top raised. Crank,
lower right, was later moved to side.
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| The trailer is built on the rear end of a 1937 Ford.
A rectangular frame, ten feet long and just wide enough to fit between
the brake drums, is made of 3-in. channel iron and is fastened to the axle
by means of U bolts. |
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| The bottom half of the trailer is constructed of 3/4-in,
exterior plywood. The floor is attached to the channel frame with angle
irons at eight points. The sides are 37 in. high and are mortised into
the floor. The method used to join the corners of the bottom half is detailed
as section A-A in the drawing on the preceding page. |
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Three young members of the family
try out the bunks in the newly
completed trailer.
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| The top half slides up and down on six tracks which are
made of aluminum trailer awning molding. These are fastened to each of
the corners and to each side of the door. Metal rods (3/8-in. dia.) are
fastened to the top and bottom of the movable top half by small angle irons.
These rods slide up and down in the aluminum molding tracks and steady
the top. |
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| A six-foot steel rod (5/8-in. dia.) is fastened to the
bottom of the floor near the middle. This is secured at six points with
two mandrel bearings and four eye-bolts. Aircraft control cables are attached
at four points on the rod and a crank is installed at one end. By a system
of pulleys, the cables go through holes at the edge of the floor and are
looped over the edge of the bottom half of the trailer and then attached
to the bottom of the top half of the trailer. When the rod is turned by
the crank, the cables pull the top up. |
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Closeup shows cranking-up operations.
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Diagram of pulley and cable system for raising
and lowering trailer top.
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| The bunks also go up with the top. They are stabilized
by 1-in. galvanized pipes 30 in. long which are screwed into the floor.
The bunks, themselves, are attached to a 3-ft. length of metal conduit
(1 1/4-in. dia.) which slides over the fastened pipes. The eight 30-in.
base pipes are drilled for steel pins which lock the bunks in the raised
position. |
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