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FIRST REVIEWED IN Caravan World 601, July 2020.

Ian Jow isn’t a big fan of how the majority of caravans are built in Australia. When I spoke to him recently he explained his reasoning by pointing out that the first vans built in Australia were raised profile, aluminium-clad, timber-frame construction and much of the local industry is stuck in a building mode that dates back to the 1920s.

It’s hard to contest his argument that technological change has

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