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Quote: Originally posted by Monty15 on 25/1/2025

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Unfortunately documents for anything before the introduction of the WWW in 1989, and really before it became widespread and better established in the mid 1990's are hard to find, as at the time no one circulated documents over the internet as they do now, and they just don't exist in 'electronic' form! Specialist historic interest groups/individuals are your best hope (as suggested in the previous post), they may have scanned and digitised old printed documents.

Caravans International better know as Ci was originally a British company. The business was founded in 1963. Sadly after many successful years developing and selling caravans, it went into liquidation in 1982. Today, the brand (name) has been brought by the Trigano Group and I believe operates out of Italy, that doesn't help you at all, in fact it confuses matters as Google searches are overwhelmed with modern irrelevant to you Ci info!

Swift caravan group also use the 'Alpine' model name on their modern Sprite brand vans, so that too dominates Google searches!

In the UK, caravans do not, nor ever have been, have to be registered/certified in their own right as a vehicle (Chassis/VIN numbers aside), as is the case in much of Europe, they take on the vehicle registration number of the tow vehicle (changing as different tow vehicles are used!), so the 'official' documentation required to register in Europe won't exist for obsolete products. User manuals and sales brochures (specifications) will have been produced, and that is pretty much all you can hope for.

Well done for saving an 'oldie', always good to keep the old caravans alive, and nice to see them being loved and used.

Good luck.

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