Home on the Road : The Motor Home in America

Chronicling more than fifty years of individual and industrial tinkering, Roger B. White shows how the technological innovations and cultural ideas of each era influenced motor-home design and popular use. Tracing the motor home's development from home made conversions to mass-produced recreation vehicles, Home on the Roadtakes a lively look at America's love affair with this mode of travel.

Roger B. White is a land transportation historian at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

1

(8)

Early Homes on Wheels

9

(22)

House Cars and the Autocamping Craze

31

(41)

House Cars Become Streamlined

72

(11)

Autocamping in the Postwar Era

83

(31)

House Cars Revisited

114

(28)

Early Manufactured Motor Homes

142

(21)

Motor Homes in the Age of Aquarius

163

(23)

Epilogue

186

(3)

Notes

189

(26)

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Home on the Road : The Motor Home in America

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