Home on the road : the motor home in America / Roger B. White.

Main entry:

White, Roger B. (Roger Byron), 1954-

Title & Author:

Home on the road : the motor home in America / Roger B. White.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000.

Description:

xii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-214) and index.
Early homes on wheels -- House cars and the autocamping craze -- House cars become streamlined -- Autocamping in the postwar era -- House cars revisited -- Early manufactured motor homes -- Motor homes in the age of Aquarius -- Epilogue.

Summary:

"Chronicling more than fifty years of individual and industrial tinkering, Roger B. White shows how the technological innovations and cultural ideals of each era influenced motor home design and popular use. Drawing on contemporary descriptions and interviews with motorists and manufacturers, he documents the wooden house cars of the late 1910s and early 1920s, the streamlined metal vehicles of the late 1940s, and a variety of converted trailers and vans that emerged from the booming vacation market of the 1950s, and 1960s."--Jacket.

ISBN:

1560988924 (alk. paper)
9781560988922 (alk. paper)
1560989149
9781560989141

Subject:

Motor homes United States History.
Autocaravanes États-Unis Histoire.
Motor homes
United States

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212805
Call No.: TL298 .W4 2000
Status: Available

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