Hurry your highness, the peasants are revolting!
Early Royal Caravan
Royalty don’t travel in caravans, unless fleeing the country. However, that never stopped the use of the word Royal from being applied to caravans, or any other thing. Here’s yet another example:
Royal Caravan: the typewriter
I picked this up last week. It’s a variant of a fairly common typewriter known as the Adler or Triumph, Tippa or Contessa, and of course Royal Caravan. It types well and is full featured with basket shift and tabs. Royal typewriter had a previous version that was not portable, although they always call these things portables:
Royal Caravan as used by Bob Dylan in the 60’s
The term “Royal Caravan” does not return the typewriter very high on the search results unless you specify the word “typewriter” however. The most interesting Royal Caravans in my mind seem to be travel trailers – here’s the most well known example:
Buckingham Palace Collection
This one was presented to Prince Charles and Princess Ann in 1955 when they were short enough to get through the door. It’s a miniature version.
no peeking at the royal children please!
There are other Royal Caravans, too:
hotel in Indonesia
Here’s a famous user of the latest clone, presuming from the source that it is Kubrick typing on one of the yellow iterations of the Adler/Triumph/Royal/Tippa/Contessa/Caravan.
Kubrick I presume?
You will see many of these on Etsy for way too much, but it seems that yellow and orange are now popular retro-nostalgia colours!
