Vintage Camping Trailer — Handmade Metal Model

A classic teardrop-era camping trailer in hand-formed iron — rounded body, small windows, and a hitch at the front.

Handcrafted with rolling metal wheels and hand-painted finish.

Details

• Handcrafted iron construction
• Metal wheels that roll
• Hand-painted with applied detail
• Window, door, hitch and trim detail
• Ready to display

The idea

Travel trailers took off in America in the 1930s, when magazines began publishing build-it-yourself plans and thousands of people made their own in back gardens from plywood and aluminium sheet. The teardrop shape was popular because it towed well and could be built by one person over a few weekends.

The postwar boom turned it into an industry, and the shapes from that era have never really been improved on aesthetically — which is why they are still being copied.