Trailers
The 17 Foot Trailer

Committee Trailer
The War Board
Ed Barnes
The Committee Trailer marks the arrival of the United States Government in trailer production. The trailer sponsored by the War Board, was designed to provide housing for the mobile class of war workers who were needed to travel from job to job and factory to factory.

The Committee Trailer was twenty two feet long by eight feet wide.

Wheel Estate, Allan Wallis, Oxford University Press, 1991
Image Credit: Trailer Topics, 2:8, 1938


Throughout the war years, the Government made significant investments in travel trailers, buying thousands of them for war workers . By the end of the war the Government had essentially developed the modern travel trailer industry through its subsidies. Production jumped from 1,500 to more than 50,000 units per year.