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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11601088.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xii, 220 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Home on the road.".
- catalog identifier "1560988924 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Home on the road.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Home on the road.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "629.226/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Motor homes United States History.".
- catalog subject "TL298 .W45 2000".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Home on the road : the motor home in America / Roger B. White.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".