Londonderry toasts the City of Culture 2013 with a little help from a caravan!

We suspect that more than a few of the past customers of our caravans for sale West Yorkshire will have taken their new purchase to various parts of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, and why not? After all, this part of the world offers no shortage of wonderful caravan parks and attractions. However, art lovers among our customers here at Albion Caravans (http://www.albioncaravans.co.uk) have been given one more great reason to go, in the form of a fascinating art installation.

Here at Albion Caravans, we're massive fans of Elddis caravans. The brand has a history dating back to 1964, and in all of that time, it's been at the forefront of so many great caravan design innovations - including its development of the industry-leading SoLiD structural bonding system. However, none of our present caravans for sale in West Yorkshire look quite like what the Japanese artist and Londonderry resident Shiro Masuyama has created as part of the 2013 City of Culture programme.

2013 sees the visit of the Turner Prize Exhibition to Londonderry, but even visitors to the show of the often controversial art prize probably weren't expecting to be greeted by an Elddis caravan with its interior converted into two parts - one half British, and the other Irish in character. The installation features the symmetrical display of many distinctly British and Irish items, with a hybrid of British and Irish objects in a third section.

Called the Borderline Project, we imagine that amid all of this installation's Victorian paraphernalia, vintage crockery and more modern Gaelic wall plaques bidding a warm welcome, some visitors might just get a sense of the spaciousness and homeliness of these caravans! It's something that we certainly emphasise to the customers of our used touring caravans West Yorkshire. If you're in the Londonderry area at any point soon, you'll be pleased to hear that following its initial dates of Wednesday 23rd to Friday 25th October, the installation will be back at the Ebrington venue every Saturday and Sunday from Saturday 26th October until Sunday 15th December, as well as on Monday 2nd December.

What will it be doing over the next few months when it isn't at Ebrington? Why, it'll be doing what cheap used caravans do, of course... travelling, namely around various border locations. As Shiro himself explained: "When the caravan is placed on some borderline points between Derry-Londonderry (Northern Ireland) and Donegal (Republic of Ireland) I hope to develop the project by talking to people on both sides of the border and adding objects and or correcting the display to the right direction."

Alas, those goodies don't come as standard with an Elddis caravan. But they might just give you some ideas for what you could put in your own, when you next buy from our extensive selection of second hand caravans West Yorkshire right here at Albion Caravans (http://www.albioncaravans.co.uk)!

Editor’s Note: Albion Caravans (http://www.albioncaravans.co.uk) are represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Email: info@jumpingspidermedia.co.uk or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.

The Elddis brand - an almost half-century of caravanning excellence

How has Albion Caravans (http://www.albioncaravans.co.uk) managed to last for almost fifty years as one of the leading used caravan dealers West Yorkshire? We aren't being self-depreciating - the answer is that we have simply always taken careful note of the needs of our customers, and worked hard to fulfil them. But that's enough about us, because this blog is about a certain other big name in caravanning that will celebrate its 50th birthday next year: Elddis.

Elddis, alongside its sister brand Buccaneer, takes pride of place in the vast portfolio of marques that you'll find represented among our caravans for sale in West Yorkshire. Its present caravan range is a high quality and relevant one, consisting of the likes of the affordable, lightweight and award-winning Xplore, the comprehensive and contemporary Avante, the refined and lightweight Affinity and the stylish and intelligently-engineered Crusader. But having built its first prototypes in 1964, the company has a long track record of building excellent caravans, and is far from a fly-by-night concern.

As one would expect of a brand with such a long history, Elddis has gone through various incarnations. 1998 saw the company brought under the umbrella of the Explorer Group alongside Compass and Buccaneer, two other big names in cheap used caravans. Within a decade, the Explorer Group had launched the Xplore range that made it the second largest caravan and motorhome manufacturer in the UK. But in 2009, the decision was made to depart from the firm's then large, mass production business model, in favour of one primary range of standard products.

It was at this time that the business was rebranded under the moniker of the company's best-established and most reputable product, Elddis. The Compass range was dropped, Buccaneer was left in place as Elddis' sole sister brand catering for the more luxurious end of the market, and the Elddis Xplore continued the good work already started by the Xplore range. The model range was streamlined, covering more affordable entry-level caravans as well as those at the premium end of the scale, as part of a drive to heighten the profile of Elddis.

Fast-forward a few years, and those initial fruits of the reshaped Elddis are coming onto the market thick and fast, while Elddis models prior to this period retain their excellent quality and value. In more recent times, Elddis has placed great store in its use of Solid Construction, a method that sees old fashioned screws and bolts dropped in favour of industrial-grade adhesives. The company says that its new models benefit from the most exceptional strength, rigidity and lightness as a result of the move, and as a major provider of used touring caravans West Yorkshire, who are we to argue?

After all, Elddis continues to produce caravans that are wonderfully strong, affordable and reliable. Why else would they continue to be so strongly represented among the second hand caravans West Yorkshire that we have to offer here at Albion Caravans (http://www.albioncaravans.co.uk)?

Editor’s Note: Albion Caravans (http://www.albioncaravans.co.uk) are represented by the search engine advertising and digital marketing specialists Jumping Spider Media. Email: info@jumpingspidermedia.co.uk or call: +44 (0)20 3070 1959 / +34 952 783 637.