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Greeting from Sydney Australia!
There were two styles of Dormobile tent for the Land Rover, the standard and family (obviously larger). Somewhere I have a reference to this and will look for it – even has the prices. I recently acquired an as new standard blue tent from a former second hand Land Rover dealer here in Sydney and intend to fit it to my IIA Station Wagon and my made up Land Rover bodied trailer. It attaches to the rear body with a rope rail (presumably under the roof rear support above the rear door) It slopes downward to the rear and the enclosed side behind the vehicle door is shaped to fit around the spare wheel mounted on the rear door. The opposite open side has a zippered door panel. I have not worked out how its frame was fitted to the back of the rear roof section of the Land Rover but assume there were flanged sockets attached on the outer extremities of the vertical back body face above the rear windows and removable tubes fitted into them (rather than the sliding arrangement fitted to the Carawagon). There are no hollow tubes in the canvas. I imagine two uprights fitted into the horizontal tubes from the sockets as there are no holes for tent poles through the outer corners and that a spreader tube connected the two uprights to form a rigid frame. Any information would be appreciated, particularly if anybody can confirm my assumption of the sockets as they may be on surviving Dormobiles.
Bob Shannon
