Car Roof Bed (1956)

Black Park, Buckinghamshire.
A new idea invented by Victor Rosen of transporting a bed that will fit on top of your car. Demonstrated by two women dressed in shorts who drive up in a Vauxhall Cresta. Panning shot of lake at Black Park and car drives up with roof rack. The two girls get out and test the water and then run back to their car and start putting up apparatus which is on top of car (.....is particularly handy for women who are scared of insects and crawly things that usually invade an ordinary tent).
One woman puts ladder up to the tent and the other blows up a mattress. They then construct a tent at side of car where they can get changed and come out in their pyjamas. (For the technically minded the fitted unit gives a bed space of six feet six inches by three feet six inches; weighs only twenty pounds, is rain proof and takes less time to put up than an ordinary tent. The measurements of the girls, by the way, are not available!). One of the women goes up the ladder and climbs into bed.
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[@rabadooda]

Those girls are something special

[@Jungleland33]

Special needs more like.

[@532bluepeter1]

Could you imagine being on the side away from the ladder and needing a pee in the night.

[@stephenwilkinson949]

Haha roof top tent & we thought they were a new idea

[@julianciahaconsulting8663]

I wanna live in the Pathe Lifestyles World

[@johannafeminist1745]

Omg! Lesbians! 😍😍😍

[@paulnolan1352]

Not much use if it rains.

[@AtasakNantasomboon]

ฮ่าๆๆ ชอบๆๆ❤😂

[@mrjockt]

This idea has been “re-invented” yet again, there are currently adverts on “Facebook” for a car roof mounted “tent”.

[@allanb52]

Isn't that awful, halcyon days though.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Their hairstyle was soon to go out of fashion

[@ekspatriat]

LESBIANS....PRISON!!!!