British Pathé Portafold film

[Admin]

Check this fantastic film out. I think this might be the only video showing a Portafold actually being demonstrated/sold by the makers:

https://www.britishpathe.com/video/caravan-exhibition-1

Although British Pathé think it's called a Portasold...

By November 1967 'Plastics (Fareham) Ltd.' had bought the rights to build them, so it must be their stand at the Caravan Exhibition, Earls Court.

[bigbird]

That's fabulous, why isn't mine as easy to put up as that??? Probably something to do with the extra tonne of fibreglass I put on the roof....lol

[53catalina]

And the hinges weren't seized

[Admin]

Also this video, which I think is from the same show, the International Caravan Exhibition at Earls Court in November 1967.

http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtu ... e76927107a

[RayH]

Great videos - you've got to love the 60's.

The way he put that up, he must have found a superlight version )

[skadgeer]

The Jon Pertwee video from 1972 racing to collapse the caravan:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/pertwees_ ... an/zkvp6v4

and again he returned in 1973 to help sell them (not much footage and no audio of his voice - 21 seconds in):
http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/CAMPI ... ry=BM98749

And likely the earliest video of a Portafold from the 25th September 1961 (31 seconds in):
http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/HOMES ... +on+wheels

Notice the Mini-Motel beside it and the possibility of how the Portafold got its' name from the front window design (I did wonder if this same Portafold was also the rare 3-windowed Portafold thats been on the forums before, modified for better usability).

[skadgeer]

If we could edit posts after a longer duration, I'd remove that as looking back now via YouTube with its' ability to set the playback speed slower I see I was mistaken.

https://youtu.be/F6pYLlZ7Ma4?t=31