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1914 Ford Model T Motor Caravan For Sale by Auction

LOT 559
1914 Ford Model T Motor Caravan
THE BEAULIEU SALE COLLECTORS' MOTOR CARS & AUTOMOBILIA
10 September 2022, 14:00 BST
Beaulieu, National Motor Museum
£20, 000 - £30, 000

1914 Ford Model T Motor Caravan
Coachwork by Dunton
Registration no. CR 4134
Engine no. to be advised
• The oldest known motor caravan in the world
• Commissioned by the Bentall family
• Completely restored to original specification in the early 1970s
• HCVC concours winner
Footnotes
This unique vehicle was built in 1914, just before the outbreak of the First World War, for a member of the Bentall family, founders of the eponymous British department store chain. It is based on a Ford Model T chassis, extended and strengthened by Baico, while the caravan body was built by Dunton of Reading, a company famous for their high quality traditional travellers' caravans. It is believed that the vehicle was sold in the 1920s and subsequently abandoned before being discovered derelict in Shepperton and restored in the 1970s by Mr Leo Smith with the help of his friend, Mr Robin Tanner, a cabinet maker. Amazingly, more than 95% of the original body timbers were found to be reusable. After some four years work, the restoration was finished and the vehicle was entered in the 1976 HCVC London-Brighton Run, winning seven awards including the Concours. Since then, 'CR 4314' has taken part in many in more London-Brighton Runs and in 1986 was displayed at the Camping, Caravan and Holiday Show at Earls Court. It has participated in various other rallies and historic vehicle shows, and been featured on television with Royal visitors in attendance.

Its all-timber body means that the caravan is very well insulated, while the floor is polished pine. External storage lockers are located beneath the floor at either side and at the rear. There are green velvet curtains to the windows, which can be drawn across the cab to ensure total privacy. The driver/ passenger seat is a deep-buttoned leather bench with integral storage box, which can be turned around to serve as two additional seats in the living quarters. There are four berths in the living area, while behind the cab on the offside is a wood-burning stove that provides all heating and cooking facilities. A Welsh dresser-style piece of furniture provides ample additional interior storage space.

In 1987, 'CR 4134' featured in a lengthy article in Which Motorcaravan magazine (December issue, copy available). Their tester Bill Taylor was clearly impressed: "The quality of material and workmanship is superb in every way and the result of the restoration is a pleasing and comfortable motorcaravan, albeit that it is achieved by different means. However, I do not know of a modern design that provides such a volume of storage space."
This unique and charming vehicle comes with interior ornaments, brass lamps, pots and pans, pictures, and antique memorabilia. It also comes with external lamps, a fuel can, spare wheel, spare spark plus, etc.

Interested parties should note that at the time of cataloguing the current UK V5C registration document has not been found, and the Caravan is offered with an old green style logbook and is sold on bill of sale.

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