Coventry Knight 47 Classic caravan tour video

[@conrad8906]

Hi Andy. What a fantastic van. I see a lot of things in it, which are in today's vans, very forward thinking in its design and equipment, shame it didn't survive, nice to see though, I've never heard of these. Conrad.

[@TerryTerryTerry]

Beautiful caravan

[@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk]

In its day a real stunner I think so now so advanced and to think that had in the 50's been towed over Europe !!

[@kevinflood8212]

Hi Andy, really enjoyed that video, you got some lovely photos. The shape reminds me of the modern day Eriba caravan. It certainly was a very luxurious design and my favourite thing about it is the wall drop down bed. The perspex kitchen units would have been very easy to keep clean. The roof canopy would certainly rule out the risk of water ingress something that modern designers need to work on 😂. Something very different Andy, very interesting well done.

[@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk]

Hi Kevin -thank you as always - yes this caravan was a real head turner - Dawtrey designed all types of stuff, and this caravan was one of many different designs he came up with. The Knight would cost a lot to make now and yes I love the drop down bed to. Thanks for watching and hope alls going well.

[@SwiftyOnebrick]

There is one of these for sale on EBay at the moment

[@KEVINLAST-p1l]

I remember seeing the mobile banks at the Caravan Club National Rallies during the 1960's. one of our members of The Eastern Counties Center of the Caravan Club, K. G. Bartholomew, may have had one just after the war. He wrote about his caravanning in his Book "Caravan Crazy". Still its a long time since i read his book so I could have got it wrong about the make.

[@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk]

Thats intereasting - I will check that out I may have that book in my archives buried - real inovative caravans especially back in that period of time - thank you

[@paulbower5274]

wot an amazing bit of kit. £2000 though i bet you could have bought a 4 bed detached house for less. .anyway , totally destressed me that thanks. as for a sunroof that dont leak 🤔🤔lets hope it catches on😂😂

[@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk]

It was a typical Dawtrey design feat where he would take things to the limit with the tech available - yes a house was affordable at that cash but these were sold abroad to rich folk who wanted to be in comfort on the move say a hunting trip - making sure that was all weather tight would have been hard but they were craftsman built