More Information

Get in touch and be involved. Discover how you can find out even more about Caravan Road Rallying.

If you would like to get in touch with the Caravan and Motorhome Club Collection please click here.

Whilst we have taken every care to ensure that permission has been obtained to reproduce material featured in this online exhibition, we would like to hear from you if you can offer any further information regarding the copyright of an item you have seen.

A recent addition to the Club’s Collection.

Can you help build the collection?

The Caravan and Motorhome Club Collection is a continually growing resource. The Club is actively collecting Road Rally material in order to create a comprehensive collection.

In particular, we are looking for Caravan Road Rally material from the earliest years of the events 1954 – 1959.

If you have any Caravan Road Rally items that you may wish to donate, or you were a competitor, marshal or organiser at one of the events, the Curator of the Caravan and Motorhome Club Collection would be delighted to hear from you.

Resources held at the National Motor Museum.

Learn more about Caravan Road Rallies

The National Motor Museum Collections Centre is home to a wealth of information about British Caravan Road Rallies including printed programmes, regulations, route maps and press cuttings.

The Caravan and Motorhome Club welcomes professional and amateur researchers to visit and access material which is not on public display, we also answer a range of public enquiries. To find out more contact the Curator of the Caravan and Motorhome Club Collection.

The Caravan and Motorhome Club and the National Motor Museum Trust would like to thank everyone who has made this exhibition possible.

We would like to show special appreciation to all the former competitors and marshals of the Caravan Road Rally events and those Caravan and Motorhome Club members who have given up their time to take part in oral history interviews. Also thank you to all those who have loaned or donated items relating to the events. Without your valued contributions this project would not have been possible.

Thank you to The Caravan magazine who have kindly given permission to reproduce coverage of the events which appeared in their publication between 1954 and 1976.

Finally, a big thank you to the National Motor Museum Trust volunteers Alan Kingwell, Ann Jury, Daryl Holloway, Donna Ballan and Susan Southwell who have aided with the research and development of this exhibition.

Glossary

There are a few terms used in this online exhibition which are quite specific to Caravan Road Rallying. If you would like to find out more about their meanings see the questions and answers below.

This is a term many caravanners use to describe their combination of car and caravan. For example, a Ford Escort tow car and Eccles caravan could be referred to as a Ford Escort and Eccles outfit.

In caravan terms a rally is either a social gathering of members, or a competitive motor sport event. Both are normally held over a course of a long weekend.

In the context of Caravan Road Rallies the term trade refers to a caravan manufacturer or dealer.

A works team is a group of drivers and co‑drivers which competed in the rally to represent a specific caravan manufacturer.

If a caravan sways from side to side while being towed, this is called snaking. This is normally caused by a caravan which is carrying an uneven load and is being towed at high speed.

This is when the car and caravan are removed from each other by ‘unhitching’ the tow bar which keeps them together.