Bowlus Trailers

What's New

-February 17, 2010
Added a new Bowlus Road Chief to the Register , number 140, it's in Wyoming.

- January 28, 2010
Added a new Bowlus brochure to the Brochures section.
This is the famous 8 page brochure with the poem by S.W. Sensiba on it. I just have the front cover but the rest will come.

- January 25, 2010
Found an old movie with a Bowlus in it. Made in 1935, and it is on Utube, it is called Red Salute. Go to 1:53 on of the movie to see a "Just Married" Bowlus!

Or for more fun go to the other section of Red Salute where "Cliff Edwards (the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Pinochio) says... That new trailer... oh, it's wonderful..."Barbara Stanwyck" ...it sure is! WOW!

- January 8, 2010
Added a new Bowlus picture to the Register.
I found another pictures of the Red and White De Luxe Road Chief... the extended one.

- January 4, 2010
Added a new Bowlus to the Register.
I found these pictures in my files of a Packard pulling a Bowlus, I think it is in California. If you are the owner please email and tell me your name and serial number.

- December 20, 2009
Added a new Bowlus to the Register.
It is Con Oamek's Bowlus #113. It's an unusual as it has a toilet room and extra small sink. Keep those photos coming in and I will post them.

- December 19, 2009
Bowlus will be the feature trailer at the Tin Can Tourist 13th Annual Gathering in Milford, Michigan May 20-23, 2010. Currently we are hoping four Bowlus Road Cheif's will be there, the largest gathering of Bowlus trailers since 1935!

- December 12, 2009
Added some new pictures of a differently kind of Papoose in register section. Thanks Gar

- December 11, 2009
Added a graphic treatment of a photo sent by Craig Dorsey of Vintage Vacation fame of a Road Chief and Boeing 247 in 1935. It's in the brochures section.

- December 10, 2009
Added a new pictures of Gar Williams' Bowlus trailer in the register section. Keep those pictures coming in.

- December 8, 2009
The site is live and open to the world.

Feature Trailer at TCT Gathering

Bowlus will be the feature trailer at the Tin Can Tourist 13th Annual Gathering in Milford, Michigan May 20-23, 2010.

Currently four Bowlus Road Cheif's will be there, the largest gathering of Bowlus trailers since 1935! There will be a presentation on Hawley Bowlus and his revolutionary trailer design on Friday evening. If you are interested in Bowlus trailers, you need to plan to attend.

This is a link to the Tin Can Tourist for more information.

Links on the site with more information. Please browse around.

Bowlus Trailer Models - Models

Restoration of my Bowlus - Restoration.

Information on Hawley Bowlus - Biography

Bowlus Brochures - Brochures

Registery of Known Bowlus - Register

Frequently Asked Questions - FAQ

Contact and Links - Contacts

To my Bowlus Road Chief

Poem by S.W.Sensiba, 1935

Fervent wish was mine to see
Spingtime bloom of desert sand,
Viewing all of Nature's lore
In her glorious wonderland

Highways lure to peaks of snow,
Ragged pines, and trouting stream;
And the roar of breaking wave
Stencils out another dream.

Now I have a graceful tube
Wrought of steel and light dural
Groomed to pierce reristant air
With an ease no words can tell.

Comfort makes a happy home
As we travel here and there
Pull the gang plan, wave adeiu"
Road Chief, "Bowlus" anywhere"

From the 1935 Bowlus Road Chief Brochure

"A check of the gasoline consumption on 'The Bowlus Road Chief' for 10,000 miles of travel revealed one startling fact. At speed of 45 miles per hour and over, due to the streamlining and light weight, the entire assemblage had a reduced air resistance that actually increased the mileage per gallon. At low speed and on grades this did not hold true, but the increased gasoline consumption was in no way abnormal or excessive. We believe that no other two cabin trailers can show the economy per miles of travel as 'The Bowlus Road Chief."

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