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Show Portable Laundries and Washrooms Form Part of Trailer City's Modern Facilities Complete mobility of part of Portsmouth, Ports-mouth, Virginia's, Trailer City is assured as-sured by the use of portable laundry laun-dry and toilet units. If the trailers in this section should be moved to another site, these utility units could move along and be ready for use as soon as the trailers were re-ccupied. re-ccupied. As used in scores of government-operated government-operated trailer parks, these utility units are transported like regular trailers, but have extensions that open out to form extra rooms when they are placed on their foundation blocks. The design is similar to the expansible mobile houses, which form four-room homes when opened, and are made by the same manufacturer. manu-facturer. Besides the expansible trailer and the utility units, the design of the expansible unit is being used in many other ways. Duplex mobile houses, with center partitions separating sepa-rating two family-size accommoda tions, heve been Installed at the Willow Run bomber plant near Detroit. De-troit. By attaching several of the units at the expansible sides, complete com-plete mobile hospitals, auditoriums, nurseries, churches, theaters and other community structures have been formed. This flexibility completes the plan for complete mobility of entire com-munities com-munities which began with the formation for-mation of trailer towns. |