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Originally Posted by Tudortomnz
The Model A Travellers Wagon was available ex factory [not a custom job] in 1931, during Fords bid to attract flagging sales, especially with commercial type sales. It was a variation of the Special Delivery which had 2 doors & roll up windows but in the maple construction of the Station Wagon style. Sorry, pics are just too numbingly ponderous to post. cheers.
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Only 10 Travelers Wagons were built, making it the rarest production body style. I've read most/all went to South America and there are no known survivors. A few years back, there was a shop in North Dakota called "Hot Rods by HG" (apparently now defunct) that was restoring/finishing a reproduction built by someone else. It's supposed to be very authentic. It's the one with the canoe pictured in burner31's post above.
The HG website had some pics of the reproduction and some Traveler Wagon info. As you note, it was derived from the Special Delivery and shared the rollup windows and locking doors. There was a 10-gallon water tank suspended from the ceiling behind the driver. It was filled from the outside with the spout through the roof. There was a fold-down bed on the passenger side of the cargo area and a box behind the driver. IIRC, the box was storage, but it may have been an ice box. There was a fold-down wash basin on the left rear door and roll-up curtains over the screened windows. All the comforts of home!
I always thought a vardo (gypsy wagon) body as a house-truck on a 28-29 "square cab" AA would be neat:
