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16/1/2021 at 2:57pm
Location: London
Outfit: Lunar Cosmos 524
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Not sure I can delve quite so far back as the 30's, but certainly can manage middle of last century, I do have a canvas ridge tent from probably 1940's or 1950's donated by an elderly relative many decades ago, I've never attempted to use it, as I had already gone all high tech with a 1960's PTC (Pneumatic Tent Company) inflatable Igloo tent! Used that well into the 1990's, as far as I know it's still useable as I dragged it out of loft and inflated it OK a few years ago.
I've also got a genuine early 1970's rubberised canvas airbed from LiLO. That's still in useable condition, probably trust that more than the new PVC ones I have that always seem to spring a new leak every night!
Jumped quite a few decades to the more modern tunnel tents I now use, but I guess they are likely getting on for ten years old now, so still vintage in some peoples eyes!
Things have moved on in the many decades I've been camping, and TBH very grateful for the progress in most cases. Only exception is perhaps the PTC Igloo tent which was decades ahead of it's time with inflatable 'poles' and sewn in ground sheet, so easy to erect/pack up, and incredibly durable in foul weather, virtually only tent left standing after night-time gale on Dorset's Golden Cap clifftop campsite. Only downside was it was cotton canvas, so very heavy and woe betide if you touched the single skin walls when it was raining. Very fond of that tent.
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