Our Touring Past

I found this advertisement on Trove the other day (The West Australian, 6-2-1932) and thought it showed the entrepreneurial skill that would make Vernon Scripps of 'Heartbeat' proud. Whoever was behind the Tivoli Garage in Perth in 1932 was putting forward a good argument for owning a 'trailer caravan'. In this time though you had to have your own site as it was long before organised caravan parks were the norm. And a weekender for just 200 quid compared to 150 for a caravan, when I think about it I don't know if he would have got many takers.

No doubt while this entrepreneur was coming up with a good idea, some devious character on council was formulating a new by-law to thwart him, they would be on 'Heartbeat' anyway.

It seems like he was building his own vans, wonder if they were called 'Tivoli'? George