Inventors
Mobile
Homes
By
Mary
Bellis
Photo: Mobile
home under tornado attack
Mobile Home: A factory built housing
unit built prior to June 15, 1976 before the Housing and Urban Development
code came into effect. (example: 1975 singlewide or doublewide home). -
source
The first examples of mobile
homes can be traced back to the roaming bands of gypsies, who traveled
with their horse drawn mobile homes as far back as the 1500s. In America,
the first mobile homes were built in the 1870's, these were movable beach
front properties, built in the Outer Banks region of North Carolina. The
homes were moved by teams of horses.
Mobile homes as we know them today
began in 1926, with automobile-pulled trailers or "Trailer Coaches", designed
as a home away from home during camping trips. The trailers evolved into
"Mobile Homes" brought into demand after World War II ended. Veterans came
home to needing housing and finding it in short supply. "Mobile Homes"
provided cheap and quickly built housing for the Veterans and their families
(the beginning of the baby boom) and being mobile allowed the families
to travel where the jobs were.
By 1943, trailers averaged a width
of 8ft and were over 20ft in length, they had up to 3 to 4 separate sleeping
sections but no bathrooms. By 1948, lengths had reached up to 30ft and
bathrooms were introduced. Mobile homes continued to grow in length and
widths such as doublewide.
In June of 1976, the United States
Congress passed the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety
Act (42 U.S.C.), which assured that all homes were built to tough national
standards. In 1980, Congress approved changing the term 'Mobile
Home' to 'Manufactured Home'.
Great
Mobile Homes of Mississippi
A gallery of Mississippi mobile
homes with accompanying commentary.
Mobile
Home Directory
The everything directory for mobile
homes, if you own one or want to.
Manufactured
Homes - Mobile Homes
Formerly called mobile homes, manufactured homes
are built in a factory and must conform to a federal building code (HUD).
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Mobile Homes of Mississippi
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