Roulotte

A roulotte is a habitat Nomade which is used to travel in general by the travelling entertainers, the Tziganes or others. It is about a tool of voyage as much as life.

The current Tziganes more often use of the modern Caravane S in the place of traditional roulottes out of wooden or fabric.

However, of the building sites still exist where young people generally build their roulottes out of wood, fabric…

Technical sides

Roulotte, often known under the name of traditional caravan, is available in a variety of sizes and formats on the basis of the model of the size of a room on wheels with that of the size of a autocaravane of Class has without the engine nor the transmission. Caravan-roulotte measures as little as 10 feet or as much as 35 feet length. Several even extensions for a more roomy cockpit offer.

Caravan-roulottes must be drawn by a separate vehicle. Majority of caravan-roulottes, and the towing vehicles (ex: 4x4) must be provided with attachment to help to distribute the weight and with apparatus designed to quench the oscillations of caravan-roulottes. Nevertheless the majority of the trucks full sizes, the light vans, the 4x4 and the vans are amply able to raise the task. Moreover, the manufacturers continue to introduce new lighter models in order to reduce the burden to tractor draw.

The caravans roulottes have in the majority of the cases a place to make the kitchen, a refrigerator, a system of heating and air-conditioning, a toilet with water hunting, a shower, water tanks (drinkable, nondrinkable and worn), valves and fittings, sinks, a source of propane, an electric system separated from 100-125 volts. You can sleep there to eight people according to the model and divisions.

Old roulottes out of wooden drawn by horses was called verdines . Formerly, place of life of the wandering gipsies , they today are used for the folklore (one sees of it each year at the time of the pilgrimages gypsies, in particular at the Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on May 24th), or by gadjés (not-Gypsies) which restore them and rent them with the tourists for stroll…

See too

Manufacture of roulotte to measure
hiring of roulotte in high Provence

List of the horse-drawn vehicles
the site of the book " The way of papa"

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