1956 Models

The Smoker Lumber Company of New Paris, Indiana marketed its brand of double-decker mobile home as the VISTA-LINER. 
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As one can see in these diagrams, the VISTA-LINER was a radically-designed mobile home! Its 10 by 50 foot size made it one of the largest house trailers available in 1956. Moreover, it was among the first coaches to house two bathrooms AND four bedrooms. 
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The unique design of the VISTA-LINER took the standard mobile home concept, drastically revised it, and then turned it backward. The rig, with its living room at the rear arrangement, would have been pulled into a trailer park lot in reverse, with the tongue at the front end of the unit facing the back end of the site.  

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The Whitley Manufacturing Company of South Whitley, Indiana offered four mobile home models in 1956; these 8-wides coming in lengths of 29, 35, 41 and 47 feet. The 47 foot ULTRALINER was their top of the line rig. Its many features included two full-size bed bedrooms, deluxe, lined draw drapes, a large double bowl sink and tandem axles.
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Whitley's 47 Footer was built with the standard -two doors in front- layout. Its rear bedroom was a sizable one for the era, but the trailer's second sleeping quarters, crammed full with a double-size bed, must have been a tight squeeze to pass through. There was, however, an abundance of closets and overhead cabinets in the unit.

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