Don Parker Drivon trailers

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Don Parker Drivon trailers

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I am trying to find out some information on said trailer and being unable to find anything online apart from the fact they were first built in 1956 and so on the off chance someone might know something more I thought I would ask here to see if anyone knows anything about these trailers.

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Googling Don Parker Trailers came up with the usual plethora of sites - including Don's racing history and a couple of (old) adverts for trailers. They certainly made trailers for 500 series racing cars and trikes and I am assuming that was how Don made his living?
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Thank you for that. Now I could just do with finding out when they stopped making them.

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c1977, when Elvis died?

Sorry, that's Col.Parker!!
Further investigations uncovered it was an inside job!!
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I think your only chance of that is to trawl through 62000000 web-sites! Don died in the late 1990s as far as I remember but he was no spring chicken.........
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TFM150K wrote:I62000000 web-sites!
I only managed to find about 40, I must learn how to google properly.

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qwerty165 wrote:
TFM150K wrote:I62000000 web-sites!
I only managed to find about 40, I must learn how to google properly.
Could I advise you to be cautious about that - although "Don Parker Trailers" has now decreased to 42,300,000 sites, "Don Parker Drivon Trailers" is up to 494,000! I put in the former, thinking that the op might be interested in Drivoff trailers as well as Drivon trailers (if qwerty165 is still paying attention to this rambling, perhaps he could entighten us as to why he is interested in this particular brand)?
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[quote="TFM150K(if qwerty165 is still paying attention to this rambling, perhaps he could entighten us as to why he is interested in this particular brand)? [/quote]
I am still paying attention (though still can nopt understand google), I am intrested in this brand because I found the manafactures plate on an old trailer and when I googled for any information it just intrested me and got me wanting to find out some history on the trailer.

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Thankyou. I feel enlightened now!
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I worked for don parker trailers in early 1960,s
his business was at 1a sangora road , Clapton junction . Battersea . London .
he started making trailers in 1956

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/arch ... don-parker


tony martin

I have some photo,s of drivon trailers .
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They look the business! :lol:
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My father had a Don Parker trailer, which used to carry his Cooper MkV111. The trailer was very light and had no brakes; the Cooper wasn't exactly heavy. It's over fifty years since the Cooper was sold and my memories of it are vague. However I knew that Don Parker drove a Kieft and was able to find this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Parke ... ng_driver) . His trailers were very popular, in a similar way in which Brian James trailers were popular when I had a single seater (By which time single seaters had become bigger and heavier than when the Coopers were the cars to beat in speed events). My father bought his trailer from Don Parker, who's workshop was somewhere in London. That was best part of sixty years ago and so my father can't remember exactly where but he recalls that the workshop was, at the time, basically a fairly small corrugated shed, next to a house. I don't have a photos of the trailer but this is my father (Who will be 80 on 19th) in his Cooper.
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A great picture. Back in the days when you were expected to wear a collar and tie even on your days off.
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Yes very smart! The opposite to what I viewed the other day on the box, (slightly off topic) you often now see these characters wearing some sort of hat back to front, as some kind of statement, I suppose. Well this particular individual actually had his hat on sideways!! ------ and the height of bad manners, he was indoors as well.

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ManyMinors wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 2:33 pm A great picture. Back in the days when you were expected to wear a collar and tie even on your days off.
By the 1970s, the tie would have been banned and you weren't allowed short sleeves. Later still flame proof overalls were compulsory (My father is seen in the black overalls, me in the red).

I asked my father if he recalls what the trailer cost and he thinks about £45.00
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re- don parker drivon trailers who I worked for in early 1960.s .
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Blaketon wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 12:24 pm My father had a Don Parker trailer, which used to carry his Cooper MkV111. The trailer was very light and had no brakes; the Cooper wasn't exactly heavy. It's over fifty years since the Cooper was sold and my memories of it are vague. However I knew that Don Parker drove a Kieft and was able to find this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Parke ... ng_driver) . His trailers were very popular, in a similar way in which Brian James trailers were popular when I had a single seater (By which time single seaters had become bigger and heavier than when the Coopers were the cars to beat in speed events). My father bought his trailer from Don Parker, who's workshop was somewhere in London. That was best part of sixty years ago and so my father can't remember exactly where but he recalls that the workshop was, at the time, basically a fairly small corrugated shed, next to a house. I don't have a photos of the trailer but this is my father (Who will be 80 on 19th) in his Cooper.
I worked for don parker trailers in early 1960,s
his business was at 1a sangora road , Clapton junction . Battersea . London .
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Blaketon wrote: Sat May 12, 2018 12:24 pm My father had a Don Parker trailer, which used to carry his Cooper MkV111. The trailer was very light and had no brakes; the Cooper wasn't exactly heavy. It's over fifty years since the Cooper was sold and my memories of it are vague. However I knew that Don Parker drove a Kieft and was able to find this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Parke ... ng_driver) . His trailers were very popular, in a similar way in which Brian James trailers were popular when I had a single seater (By which time single seaters had become bigger and heavier than when the Coopers were the cars to beat in speed events). My father bought his trailer from Don Parker, who's workshop was somewhere in London. That was best part of sixty years ago and so my father can't remember exactly where but he recalls that the workshop was, at the time, basically a fairly small corrugated shed, next to a house. I don't have a photos of the trailer but this is my father (Who will be 80 on 19th) in his Cooper.
https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/arch ... don-parker
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