Home on the road

the long version

"Chronicling more than fifty years of individual and industrial tinkering, Roger B. White shows how the technological innovations and cultural ideals of each era influenced motor home design and popular use. Drawing on contemporary descriptions and interviews with motorists and manufacturers, he documents the wooden house cars of the late 1910s and early 1920s, the streamlined metal vehicles of the late 1940s, and a variety of converted trailers and vans that emerged from the booming vacation market of the 1950s, and 1960s."--Jacket.