looks like there was a publicity photo of the Curtis trailers during a road trip, Florida, 1936

https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/images-of-vintage-gas-stations-pre-65.1033288/page-27

check this out... a 40 ford, with a 5th wheel... and maybe that's a Curtiss Aerocar trailer

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10227417922058462&set=gm.6227238320644313

Curtis Aerocar trailers in a Shell gas station, Florida, 1936

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=263045288514289&id=100044264597798

Car and tourist observation trailer, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1933 Thanks Steve!

No better sample of this photo seems to be online, and that's a damn shame, look at this beauty of a car and trailer!

Well, this photo was used as a book cover, and zooming in on that, shows the front license plate, and the 3 people in the car!

The travelers are from California, and they are parked just west of the Logan Pass summit, on the Logan Pass Highway in Glacier National Park.

Looks like an expensive rig, and in 1933, only the richest people would be out touring around with a big car like this and such a sweet travel trailer, I suppose. Seems to be a 5th wheel goose neck trailer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(towed_trailer)#/media/File:1933_car&trailer.jpg
https://shop.glacier.org/keychain-gttsr-12/

the Curtis Wright collection for 1946 and 1947, Marc B (thanks Marc! ) knew the info that shows what a rare advertisement these are!

This is Curtis Wright Industries, which was started by a man named Curtis Wright. He may have been taking advantage of the fact that his name was similar to Curtiss-Wright, the company started by Glenn Curtiss and the Wright Brothers. Curtis Wright worked with the man who started Airstream, so the CW Clipper trailers look like Airstreams. https://tincantourists.com/wiki/curtis-wright/

Thanks Steve! I never heard of their little airplane before! 

1933 Jehovah's Witness public address speaker adorned trailer in Charleston West Virginia 1933. Religious stuff was quite prominent in the lean tough years following the great depression

How all these loud speakers amplified to be heard from a block away didn't get people ticketed for disturbing the peace is a mystery

Looks like a  Curtiss Aerocar trailer  http://www.mackeysclockrepair.com/more_old_west_virginia_pictures.html

Curtiss Aerocar and it's one of a kind Chevy towing vehicle, still together after all these years. Originally built by a rodeo cowboy in 1938

https://www.hemmings.com/blog/2009/11/19/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1938-curtiss-aerocar/

http://www.doityourselfrv.com/wallace-collection-strangest-vintage-campers/

Steve is BACK! And he finds the coolest stuff! Like this twin to the Pan Am bus I posted last year

How does he DO that? Folks, I have know him 5 years and I still have no idea! I suspect PFM

Last spring I posted this Curtis Aerocar

http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2016/07/wow-lot-of-cool-happening-in-this-1931.html

Curtis Aerocar trailer I haven't seen before

And the puller, is that a truck, van, or car? It's a big ol car for sure, but with a roofline as high as a trailer, I'm going to guess it's an ancestor of the Suburban. (Not the Plymouth Suburban, the Chevy one)

all the luxury that could be bought, 1932 Graham-Paige Blue Streak Cup with Curtis Aerocar Land Yacht caravan trailer

American banker Hugh McDonald used this luxurious combination in the early 1930s to be driven from his estate on Long Island to his office in New York.

The trailer resembles an airplane and was built in according with aviation building principles by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company in Florida

A lightweight, tubular metal frame is braced with wire cables. The interior is furnished with lightweight wicker chairs and a desk. The Aerocar’s nose looks like a cockpit and is fitted with a compass, barometer, altimeter, speedometer and swivelling floodlights. The galley features a refrigerator and there is also a lavatory with flushing toilet.

A rather unusual vehicle for daily use, but not to the American banker Hugh McDonald who used this luxurious combination in the early 1930s to be driven from his estate on Long Island to his office in New York. The semi-trailer resembles an aeroplane and was built in accordance with aviation construction principles by the Curtiss Aeroplane Company in Florida.

 A lightweight, tubular metal frame is braced with wire cables. The interior is furnished with lightweight wicker chairs and a desk. The Aerocar’s nose looks like a cockpit and is fitted with a compass, barometer, altimeter, speedometer and swivelling floodlights.

The galley features a refrigerator and there is also a lavatory with flushing toilet. The yacht was towed by a Graham Blue Streak fitted with a four-litre engine. A spare wheel was placed in the space normally occupied by the ‘dickey seat’. The towing pin of the trailer fits in a socket in the hub and the tire damped out the shocks while driving.

It's in the Louman Musuem http://louwmanmuseum.nl/en/Ontdekken/Ontdek-de-collectie/graham-blue-streak-coupe-and-curtiss-aerocar-land-yacht

Found on https://www.facebook.com/pages/Time-Travelers-come-travel-back-in-time/284477301577152

it seems like Curtiss Wright sold the monstrosity of a hovercraft waste of R&D to Ford, maybe

found on http://bangshift.com/blog/historic-video-1960s-army-testing-of-curtiss-wright-air-car-is-a-glimpse-of-a-future-that-never-was.html

the 1961 Ford Glide Air was the 1959-60 Curtiss Wright model 2500 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/07/1959-curtiss-wright-model-2500.html

top two images found on http://www.thegentlemanracer.com/2013/04/1961-ford-glideair-hover-car.html

Feb 5th update, the Army tried it out

found on http://bangshift.com/blog/historic-video-1960s-army-testing-of-curtiss-wright-air-car-is-a-glimpse-of-a-future-that-never-was.html

Filmed in 1960, the brief clip shows military testing of a 1959 Curtiss-Wright Model 2500 Air Car. Powered by two 180 horsepower Lycoming engines that each provided lift via a four-blade fan, the Air Car was able to steer by redirecting this air through louvers set into either side of the body.

This weighed in at around 2500 pounds, was twenty-one feet long, eight feet wide, and claimed to reach speeds of “over fifty miles-per-hour”, all while carrying up to four passengers. It also drank aviation gas from two twenty-gallon tanks to give it a range of about two hours of run-time.



March 20th update, Road and Track did a feature on this as well, never mentioned the Ford vehicle http://www.roadandtrack.com/features/web-originals/curtiss-wright-air-cars

Jan 2018 update, maybe it was all development in hopes that they could make personal hovercraft

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/7507224-post21351.html

a variety of interesting stuff found on Mentally Defective and Born Too Late Tumblr

all from the big variety on mentallydefectiveandborntoolate.tumblr.com

Have you ever seen a 1956 Hudson Station Wagon? It's also a Rambler Custom. Yeah, I need to look this up and find out how it's a Hudson and a Nash

The station wagon (post or hardtop) is an expensive body to make, mainly because of the large rear quarter panels and roof. The wagon had been very popular in the Rambler line ever since its intoduction in 1950 as a two door. A four door version was introduced in 1954 and accounted for almost one third of Rambler sales that year, and closer to half for 1955.

That there were never any wagons in the other Nash or Hudson lines explains some of the high Rambler wagon sales, but there had to be a wagon in the Rambler line regardless of cost. As it turned out, nearly half the 1956-57 Ramblers sold were wagons. http://www.amcyclopedia.org/node/54

Keep in mind, the 1956 was the 2nd year of AMC existing and so they still used more than one (AMC) car maker identification on this wagon.

AMC was created as a merger of Nash and Hudson on May 1, 1954, but Hudson had no 1955 models ready. Hudson factory production ceased in July of 1954, but AMC had a contractual obligation to supply vehicles to Hudson dealers until the Nash and Hudson car lines could be consolidated. So Hudson dealers received the same Rambler as Nash dealers for 1955, the only difference being the Hudson emblem. U.S. production was 5,981 two door models, 19,223 four door models. Canadian production was only 226 two door sedans and 548  four door sedans.

Even at a price that was expensive compared to Ford, Chevrolet and Plymouth, the Rambler sold well enough to provide the foundation for AMC. It offered comfortable accomodation for four people, economy, sturdy contruction and a high level of equipment. It was a foundation that George Romney, who took over AMC when Mr Mason died in late 1954, would build upon brilliantly.

 wow, incredible leather seats! And check out the ashtray in the door, cool!

So I looked it up, and was reminded... of just what AMC was. American Motors was a merger of failing car companies that couldn't compete alone against GM, Ford and Chrysler.. The companies that merged were Nash, Hudson

the ultimate goal was to be the merger of the new American Motors Corporation with the newly formed Studebaker-Packard Corporation (cash-flush but dealer-poor Packard bought cash-poor but dealer-flush Studebaker), which would have made American Motors a viable four-marque competitor in the industry as one of the "Big Three" - they would have been bigger than Chrysler.

However, when George Mason of AMC died in 1954, James Nance of Studebaker-Packard (took over in 1952) decided to go his own way.  He shouldn't have, since the Studebaker-Packard merger was fraught with problems, and the strength of AMC would have bailed them out.  As it was, Nance resigned following a disastrous 1956 and Studebaker-Packard agreed to a three-year management contract with the Curtiss-Wright Corporation.


  Curtiss-Wright promtly took over all of the defense contracts and factories that Studebaker-Packard held, and killed off Packard within two years, although the Packard name wasn't dropped until 1962. 

Cool designs, and trailers I'd love to admire in person

On the road in the mid 1930's, from Beirut to Baghdad, by way of Damascus, reminded me of the 1937 D-35 Jungle Caravan of Commander Gatti http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/09/extraordinary-designer-of-automotive.html

The above was designed by Brooks Stevens, its a 1936 Zephyr Land Yacht

The above is a Curtiss Aerocar trailer. I'd like to see a photo of the rig in the trunk of the car towing it. It reminded me of http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/12/rare-trailer-and-pulling-car-combo.html

1932 Arrow Plane in a museum in Mesa Arizona

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/category/trailers/

Cool Rv's, 2 because they melded a vehicle and a trailer into one

http://shawnstussy.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#5045406272543677438 the 1938 Turtle by Roy Hunt. The wrap around windshields are even cooler, and the nice slope to the front is very good looking, as well as the 30's grill. This one had me recalling http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/03/finally-found-out-what-story-is-on-this.html

via http://rockindownthehighway.blogspot.com/ is this Diamond T "Doodlebug" fuel tanker from the 30's

Ain't that the cutest! Maybe it was an Airstream Bambi? Mixed with a VW bus I think

had me recall http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/wow-how-about-this-usefulness-of.html

via http://www.thisoldrv.com/Gallery/tabid/606/AlbumID/1269-15/Default.aspx