[SilverStreak] Fw: Silver Streak history

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Oops! Made the same mistake. I knew that Curtiss-Wright and Curtis Wright
were not the same company, but my fingers put the "s-" in anyway. 
"McDonnell," too.
Sorry,
Al

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In late 1946, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft Company and Wally Byam together
started production of a new post-war travel trailer based on Wally's
pre-war Airstream Clipper at the Van Nuys Airport (LA Metropolitan
Airport). After some months they split into the Wallace Manufacturing and
Curtiss-Wright Travel Trailers, but shared facilities until Wally struck
out on his own. This is why early Airstreams and CW's look similar,
varying in window styles mainly. In June 1949, three individuals, Kenny
Neptune, Frank Pollito and "Pat" Patterson, who had met each other while
working for McDonnel-Douglas, acquired the trailer business from
Curtiss-Wright, who sold the line to concentrate on making aircraft
engines, and they began producing trailers under the Silver Streak name
in south El Monte California, which it continued into the 1970's as a
separate company.