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Hello,
I’ve just bought in september a land rover serie 2a dormobile which seems very complete and original in UK. 😀
I read that there was a tent which was an option, to fix behind the car: do you have photos or texts about it? 💡
Thank you. EmmanuelHello,
In the site of the série 2 club, there is a picture of a carawagon with a canvas rear extension. (http://www.series2club.co.uk/frame.htm, in the gallery)
Do you think it looks like the same for the land rover dormobile.
thank you.@MANU21 wrote:
In the site of the série 2 club, there is a picture of a carawagon with a canvas rear extension. (http://www.series2club.co.uk/frame.htm, in the gallery)
Do you think it looks like the same for the land rover dormobile.
thank you.No they are not the same. I have not seen a MW tent that was fitted to a Land Rover Dormobile but I have seen the optional Carawagon rear tent.
The horizontal tubes on a Carawagon rear tent are built into the body. They slide into the body when retracted and reside just below where the Dormobile top bunks reside. The vertical tent frame sections have retactable feet. The end segment is anchored to the rear of the horizontal bars but the inner ones can slide along the bar. Then fully retracted, the horizontal bars are inside the Land Rover and the vertical frame sections are clustered together aganst the back of the body where they are strapped to the body.
I think the optional Dormobile tents are stand alone tents and that there just may be different tents for different marques.
TeriAnn
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
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