Bedford Dormobile

Bedford CA Dormobile (1968)

Although the name Dormobile was actually only used for campers based on the Bedford CA , there were also conversions based on competing products from the Bedford, such as E.g. here the Morris J4 from 1965.

The Bedford Dormobile is a camper conversion from the 1960s based on the Bedford CA and after the cessation of production in 1969 and based on the Bedford CF . It was built in Folkestone ( Kent ) by Martin Walter . This company later converted a number of other vans for other purposes, such as: B. in minibuses, ambulances, etc. before it collapsed in the mid-1990s.

The novelist Anthony Burgess , who owned a Dormobile and used it as a mobile home and vehicle for his travels across Western Europe in the late 1960s, described it as “a marvel of British engineering, but severely damaged by its typically British design: it is missing Screws, the wood paneling is not even ... "

Web links

Club of the owners of a Dormobile (English)