Olympic Caravans - Pre fiberglass
Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 2:42 pm
Olympic Caravans.
3397 Pacific Highway Springwood. Queensland
In 1927 Walter John Dimmack and his Uncle produced one of the first motorised caravans in Australia, which was built on the back of a Model T Ford.
Walter Dimmack then went on to work for the Brewer Racquet Company who in 1939 produced the first travelling showroom caravan, built for Mr R.O.Cummings, a professional tennis champion. Also that year the brewer company produced a caravan with slide in boat on the floor. which won the caravan award in the motor show of that year.
Following his return from war service, Mr Dimmack founded the present company and commenced producing bond wood and aluminium caravans in Queensland. in 1965 the company turned to the production of fibre glass caravans, a which material they considered far superior
The above information is copied from Richard's original post in regard to Olympic Caravans. I thought it might make a 'cleaner' post if the pre fiber glass era vans were kept separate.
While at Cowra recently I called into have a quick look at the Fun Museums on the outskirts of town, a must for anyone interested in collections especially if you are into WWII German military, railways or tractors, the main part of the collection, but there is a host of other stuff there as well.
The owner also owns the caravan business next door, Caravan City Cowra. On this occasion they had an Olympic aluminium, 15 foot, 1964 Sovereign (details from its sale notice) which is the first time I've seen an Al Olympic. I didn't have a look inside but took a quick picture, it was in a car port so couldn't get good access. It looked well used, and the asking price was a rather unusually precise amount of $9077.14.
Nice cast Al Olympic badge on the front.
George
3397 Pacific Highway Springwood. Queensland
In 1927 Walter John Dimmack and his Uncle produced one of the first motorised caravans in Australia, which was built on the back of a Model T Ford.
Walter Dimmack then went on to work for the Brewer Racquet Company who in 1939 produced the first travelling showroom caravan, built for Mr R.O.Cummings, a professional tennis champion. Also that year the brewer company produced a caravan with slide in boat on the floor. which won the caravan award in the motor show of that year.
Following his return from war service, Mr Dimmack founded the present company and commenced producing bond wood and aluminium caravans in Queensland. in 1965 the company turned to the production of fibre glass caravans, a which material they considered far superior
The above information is copied from Richard's original post in regard to Olympic Caravans. I thought it might make a 'cleaner' post if the pre fiber glass era vans were kept separate.
While at Cowra recently I called into have a quick look at the Fun Museums on the outskirts of town, a must for anyone interested in collections especially if you are into WWII German military, railways or tractors, the main part of the collection, but there is a host of other stuff there as well.
The owner also owns the caravan business next door, Caravan City Cowra. On this occasion they had an Olympic aluminium, 15 foot, 1964 Sovereign (details from its sale notice) which is the first time I've seen an Al Olympic. I didn't have a look inside but took a quick picture, it was in a car port so couldn't get good access. It looked well used, and the asking price was a rather unusually precise amount of $9077.14.
Nice cast Al Olympic badge on the front.
