Mar 25, 2009

Streamlined vehicles were not always pretty #3



This is reportedly the world’s first professionally styled mobile home. It was designed by industrial designer Brooks Stevens in 1936 for William Woods Plainkinton, Jr. of Milwaukee.

The 45-foot vehicle was just two inches shy of the maximum legal length for highway travel at the time.

Loaded with fuel and water it weighed eleven tons.

"With sleeping accommodations for 8 people and every modern convenience," a Green Bay reporter wrote, "the Milwaukeean's trailer represents the last word in deluxe sports equipment."