Thursday, January 7, 2010

Orgin of Airstream Name - Caelin Schneider

Wally conceived the name “Airstream” in 1934 and began applying it to his trailers “because that’s the way they travel, like a stream of air”. In fact, they are 20% more aerodynamic than regular "boxy" trailers.

Information Sources
1. Banham, Russ. Wanderlust: Airstream at 75. Old Saybrook, Conneticut: Greenwich Publishing Group, 2005.

2 comments:

  1. this is wrong. the book says so. there is contradicting info on the creed website. by 1931 they already had the name Airstream

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