[VAL] Factory Tour Pictures

["Tom Patterson" <pattersontom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't forget that Silver Streak got their start in 1949 when three 
individuals -- Pollito, Neptune and Patterson acquired the trailer business 
from the Curtis Wright Company.  The early Silver Streaks were identical to 
the Clippers that Curtis Wright had been producing before the sale.  You can 
see ads from before and after the sale on my site at: 
http://www.tompatterson.com/Silverstreak/Ads/Ads.html.  Notice that the 
trailer pictured in several of the ads is the same except for being a Silver 
Streak.

Several years before that, Wally Byam and Curtis Wright had been producing 
trailers together, with some of them labled as Airstreams, and with some 
labled as Curtis Wright trailers.  The trailer you think of as a Silver 
Streak may be one of the trailers produced in the Byam/Curtis Wright era.

-Tom