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Default Lost my ladders on the motorway

On 14/07/2018 12:07, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Steve Walker wrote :
*They were the ones advertised in magazines with a Volvo stood on the
roof. In this case, the carvan was on its side, facing the wrong way
and a Volvo was hanging from the hitch, with its back wheels in the
air. No obvious damage at all, but I don't know what the side against
the road was like.


Almost any caravan which turns over onto its side, will lift the rear of
the tow car off the road.


Not sure that'd have been true of the 60s and 70s cheap end of the
market - the roofs would bend as you tried to scrub them clean at the
beginning of the season!

SteveW