For those who are interested, I asked the RV Hall of Fame in Indiana if they had any information on the very beginnings of Streamline. This was their reply:

Streamline Trailer Company was originally in Thorntown, IN near Indianapolis. We have very little info in a brand product file. Guerdon (originally Guerdon Trailer Co.) started in the 30s as a house trailer manufacturer in the Michigan thumb area it grew and diversified, becoming a holding company and moving around the country. At one time it was based in Louisville, KY and is still active in the manufactured housing field in Washington as a part, I believe, of American Homestar Corp. Nearly half of the companies in the RV industry went out of business in the 70s due to the 2 oil shortages and the Carter interest inflation times. We have the most literature and information of any where but we have no research staff. You must come here to research our 10,000 books and magazines. Digitizing the collection would be vastly prohibitive.

By Tom Patterson on Friday, November 10, 2000 - 08:46 pm:

Guerdon Industries was totally owned by another company, City Investing. Streamline itself was a division of Guerdon Industries, which manufactured, I believe, a total of 5 different makes of trailers. I have the names of 4 of them somewhere, but when Bob Abreu mentioned them, I recognized only one -- Vagabond. The end came on February 1, 1974 when City Investing directed Guerdon to divest itself of interest in all of its Recreational Vehicle holdings.