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A travel trailer, camper trailer or caravan is towed behind a road vehicle to provide a place to sleep which is more comfortable and protected than a tent (although there are fold-down trailer tents).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Buying a trailer tent or folding camper. )〕 It provides the means for people to have their own home on a journey or a vacation, without relying on a motel or hotel, and enables them to stay in places where none is available. However, in some countries campers are restricted to designated sites for which fees are payable. Travel trailers and caravans vary from basic models which may be little more than a tent on wheels to those containing several rooms with all the furniture and furnishings and equipment of a home. They are used principally in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand and are rare elsewhere. ==History== In Europe, the origins of travel trailers and caravanning can be traced back to travelling Romani people ('Gypsies'), and showmen who spent most of their lives in horse-drawn caravans. Samuel White Baker purchased an actual Gypsy caravan in Britain and shipped it to Cyprus for his tour in 1879.〔(Cyprus as I saw it ), Samuel White Baker, 1879〕 The world's first leisure trailer was built by the Bristol Wagon & Carriage Works in 1880 for Dr. William Gordon Stables, a popular author of teenage adventure fiction, who ordered a "gentleman's caravan". It was an design, based upon their Bible Wagons,〔An illustration of a Bible wagon is at http://faith.galecia.com/resource/moodys-bible-wagon〕 used by traveling preachers in America's Wild West.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bristol, where the caravan was invented )〕 Stables named it ''Wanderer''. He travelled around the British countryside in it and later wrote a book documenting his travels in 1885 called ''The Gentleman Gypsy''. By the turn of the century, 'caravanning' for leisure had become an increasingly popular activity. In 1901, the first dedicated caravanning club was established. The Camping and Caravanning Club (originally the Association of Cycle Campers) was founded by Thomas Hiram Holding, the father of modern camping. The Caravan Club was founded in 1907 with Stables as its vice president. Its stated aim was to "... bring together those interested in van life as a pastime...to improve and supply suitable vans and other appliances...and to arrange camping grounds." Caravanning gained popularity in North America in the 1920s. One of the first home-built house trailers in America was built in 1933 by grocer-barber-restaurateur-miner John "Jack" Anthony Porcella, who traveled extensively throughout the western states. Modern travel trailers come in a range of sizes, from tiny two-berth trailers with no toilet and only basic kitchen facilities, to large, triple-axle, six-berth types. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「travel trailer」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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