Some Avion insights
Avion is a very interesting story.
Oscar Selent, an Airstream owner and Caravanner lived in Benton Harbor, MI. Some way or some how his trailer was measured by the future manufacturers and owners of Avion.
Avion-to-be also purchased an Airstream and totally disassembled it. They blue-printed what they had done. Then reassembled it.
There will be a few items that I do not specifically remember, but I will
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I don’t know if the Avion came out in 1955 or 1956. They entered the South Bend RV show.
The name of their first model was the Romney Cruiser?
At the show Avion only had one model, and handed out Airstream literature. Telling prospective customers that their trailer was the same as the Airstream specs as found in the Airstream literature.
Airstream went to court on “copy cat” principles. Avion had to change their contours and outside appearance. Whoopee for product identification, patents and copyrights.
(I don’t know the year(s) of the court battle.)
This is from Sierra Neveda Unit, and is my rememberance of how Avion tried to duplicate and sell a product exactly like the Airstream.
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