The 牽引する must go on! How Britain's love 事件／事情／状勢 with the caravan has lasted more than 130 years from world's oldest 'house on wheels' to today's モーター-homes

Scottish medic Dr William Stables, pictured with his dog and a friend, （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d the world's first leisure caravan in 1885. He 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be known as 'T he Gentleman Gypsy' as he travelled around the country 存在 pulled by two horses

When the Wanderer was （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限d, the 内部の 燃焼 engine was in its 幼少／幼藍期, so it was not a practical 選択 to 運ぶ／漁獲高 something as 激しい and motorised steam engines of the time were either incredibly bulky tractors or cars with very 限られた／立憲的な 力／強力にする and little practical 範囲

によれば 報告（する）／憶測s at the time, The Wanderer had problems navigating the nation's poor 質 unmetalled roads?

These two ladies were on a caravan holiday together in August 1939, just weeks before war was 宣言するd with Germany, 運動ing what appears to be an incredibly unusual Packard Sedan

The first caravans designed to be pulled by a 自動車 were designed by Eccles モーター 輸送（する） 限られた／立憲的な from Birmingham?

This caravan was 展示（する）d at the 1926 motorcycle 展示 存在 held at the Olympia in London?

This group of friends had a caravan and a テント on the banks of the River Thames in Chertsey in the 1930s. One of the ladies appears to be tinkering with the Seagull outboard モーター on the 支援する of the boat, left

These three ladies appear to be enjoying a caravan holiday on April 15, 1930 under the shade of a riverside tree

This family paints their caravan for a holiday in Cheshunt in 復活祭 1951 - which had to be carefully planned as 石油 was still rationed in Britain at the time?

This couple, 運動ing a Hillman Minx and a Hillmann Wizard, met outside a caravan 倉庫・駅 in Malden, Surrey, to 選ぶ up their new 動きやすい homes in the 早期に 1930s

In 1919, there were 755 members of the （軍の）野営地，陣営ing and Caravanning Club as people saw the 可能性s 現在のd by 牽引するing your holiday accommodation on the 支援する of your car. This open 最高の，を越す tourer was pictured 運動ing through London 牽引するing a caravan in the 1920s

早期に caravans 最初 cost in the 地域 of £100 - some £5,000 in today's money - now a new caravan costs from £15,000. Here an Austin Seven is pulling a caravan in the 1930s

It is 概算の that the caravanning 産業 is 価値（がある） an 概算の £6 billion to the UK economy each year. This family is enjoying their short break in Hurley Farm, 近づく Maidenhead, Berkshire around 1934, with what appears to be a Morris 8

The growth in 人気 of the 自動車 許すd owners to buy their own caravans and 調査する the country, such as this scene of two caravanners 長，率いるing to their campsite in 1956, one of whom is 運動ing a 1950s Hillman Minx while the other is in an Austin A40

Some Britons, such as Frank Taylor, his wife Joan and their children, took caravanning to an extreme, using theirs to 小旅行する Canada

Actors such as Shelia Hamilton, pictured, with co-星／主役にするs Jack Harnett and Ron Priestly in a 小旅行するing caravan

This small caravan was 牽引するd to a beach during the 1960s 供給するing panoramic 見解（をとる）s of the water - although it does appear to be parked below the high tide 示す

By the 1960s, there were an 概算の 50,000 caravanners in Britain, encouraged by the 開始 of the motorway 網状組織, such as The Feather's Caravan Park, Whitley Bay in Tyne and Wear, where this Hillman Minx was parked

The caravanning craze also led to the 創造 of motorhomes - 特に 変えるd 先頭s which kitchens and bunk beds. This image shows a Dormobile caravan 牽引するing an Alpine Sprite 4 寝台／地位 caravan into a Caravan Club 場所／位置 at Harleyford, 近づく Marlow, Buckighamshire in the late 1950s or 早期に 1960s

This family are sitting in 前線 of their 動きやすい home and their 1965 Hillman Minx at a caravan park in Sussex

Today, there are an 概算の 550,000 caravans on the road with a その上の 300,000 in static caravan parks?

Some modern motorhomes can cost as much as £146,000 depending on their size and the level of 器具／備品 inside

This is a 2002 Citroen C5 hdi 牽引するing a caravan. In total, there are more than 500,000 caravans 現在／一般に on the road