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06-23-2014, 03:53 PM
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Trailer: 2009 Trillium 13 ft ('Homelet') / 2000 Subaru Outback
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The windows are the same as all the recent trilliums. They are one of the reasons we bought a trillium - ventilation on all four sides.
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06-24-2014, 10:41 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Dave W
Trailer: Trillium 4500 - 1976, 1978, 1979, 1300 - 1977, and a 1973
Alberta
Posts: 6,926
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Roger C H
However, they have switched to plain panel doors instead of the framed.
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Roger, could you please explain what you mean?
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07-28-2014, 11:04 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2009 Trillium 13 ft ('Homelet') / 2000 Subaru Outback
Posts: 2,222
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Trillium vs Sidekick
These are the Trillium doors.
These are the Sidekick doors.
David, sorry it took so long to answer.
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07-29-2014, 09:37 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Dave W
Trailer: Trillium 4500 - 1976, 1978, 1979, 1300 - 1977, and a 1973
Alberta
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They have also changed how the doors are hinged. I don't like it. If anything, I would have gone with hinges at the top with spring supports, like Parkliner.
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07-29-2014, 10:53 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Frank
Trailer: 2012 ParkLiner #006
New York
Posts: 2,273
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Quote:
Originally Posted by David Tilston
They have also changed how the doors are hinged. I don't like it. If anything, I would have gone with hinges at the top with spring supports, like Parkliner.
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ParkLiners don't come with spring supports, some owners (like us) go to quite a bit of trouble to add them! But boy, once they're in, ya can't beat 'em.
Frank
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07-30-2014, 09:39 PM
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Member
Name: Dave
Trailer: Former Serro Scotty and Toyota Motor Home owner
Alabama
Posts: 30
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Trillium in Alabama!!
Thrilled, at this point anyway, to see they're right up the road in Winfield. I just sent them an email to see if they're open to customer's visits. I'd like to find out more...
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07-31-2014, 01:04 AM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 2009 Trillium 13 ft ('Homelet') / 2000 Subaru Outback
Posts: 2,222
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Shipping
Red Guitar,
Well you certainly would save on shipping charges!
But you would be buying a SideKick, not a Trillium.
There are subtle changes.
BTW: Welcome to FGRV
I wonder: If Trillium is going TU, maybe Outback will be named Trillium?
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07-31-2014, 04:47 AM
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Trailer: 2007 19 ft Escape 5.0 / 2002 GMC (1973 Boler project)
Posts: 4,148
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Hi: Roger C H... I didn't see Tom Young at Bolerama this year, but I did meet a nice couple from Michigan with their brand new SideKick.
It was probably financially beneficial for Tom to sell the rights to Great West Vans, as it was beneficial for GWV. to spin off the trailer Mfg. and move it south.
Alf S. North shore of Lake Erie
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08-21-2014, 02:34 PM
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Member
Name: T&K
Trailer: Boler
Manitoba
Posts: 77
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I spoke with the owner of Great West Vans recently. Great West Vans bought Trillium around 2012, I believe that Tom joined Great West. Great West is a Winnipeg-owned business. They were manufacturing the Trillium Sidekick in Winnipeg until their pipes froze at the end of March 2014. They have since re-located the manufacturing for their US market to Winfield Alabama. It takes time to do a move and a start-up of operations. They also have an idea of beginning a small-scale manufacturing of the Trillium Sidekick in Winnipeg to serve the Canadian market. That's all to the best of my understanding. What I find so interesting is that the Trillium is a direct descendant of the Boler, which of course started in Winnipeg, and now has come full circle, sort of.
Boler - putting the egg in Winnipeg since 1968
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08-21-2014, 04:29 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: Outback (by Trillium) 2004
Posts: 1,588
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trillium....gotta love it! we have an '04 outback by team trillium from calgary and just love that the trillium logo is on our door. the newer models don't seem to have it (guess that goes back to those legal issues when tom and joe split up)....but coming originally from ontario, having the trillium emblem on our osokozy is HUGE to us.
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08-25-2014, 05:46 AM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1972 Boler American and 1979 Trillium 4500
Posts: 5,141
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rova
What I find so interesting is that the Trillium is a direct descendant of the Boler, which of course started in Winnipeg, and now has come full circle, sort of.
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Who said that? Not sure how it can be a direct descendant. The commonalities are molded fiberglass, made in Canada and use stock RV appliances.
http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f...nts-26760.html
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08-25-2014, 07:09 AM
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Member
Name: T&K
Trailer: Boler
Manitoba
Posts: 77
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Trillium had on its web site the following: “Demand in the industry has moved us into manufacturing a trailer based on the popular Boler trailer of the 1970s, except with the latest technology. The new trailer is called the Outback”. In 2014, Trillium is moving from Calgary to Winfield, Alabama and the new name for their trailer is the Sidekick. Their web site says: “Sidekick is the direct descendent of the original Trillium trailer of Markham (Toronto) Ontario, Canada.”
So I guess we could discuss whether "based on" and "direct descendant" are the same thing; I think they are, but I can see how some might feel "based on" is not the same thing.
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08-25-2014, 07:42 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Jon
Trailer: 2008 Scamp 13 S1
Arizona
Posts: 11,955
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trillium is no more
Sounds like marketing hype to me. "Direct descendent" ought to mean a continuity of ownership and/or designs and molds with the original company. I'd consider Outback and Sidekick direct descendants of Trillium, but no link to Boler (other than layout and molded FG construction).
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08-25-2014, 07:47 AM
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Member
Name: T&K
Trailer: Boler
Manitoba
Posts: 77
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OK, I'll go with that.
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08-25-2014, 08:04 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Jon
Trailer: 2008 Scamp 13 S1
Arizona
Posts: 11,955
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Company I am curious about is Escape. Is there any direct link to Trillium or is it more in the way of a clone? The shape of the 13'er is strikingly similar...
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08-25-2014, 10:44 AM
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Member
Name: Lloyd
Trailer: 1976 Trillium 1300
Nova Scotia
Posts: 37
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Here is some very recent copy from Great West. The Trillium trefoil logo is prominent on the door mould. When you search "trillium" on Kijiji in NS there is a dealer advertising as the only dealer east of Montreal. Trillium is still with us.
http://www.greatwestvans.com/wp-cont...el-Trailer.pdf
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08-25-2014, 10:58 AM
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Member
Trailer: No Trailer Yet
Posts: 41
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Ok I have a question concerning these FGs.... I went over and read the "history" I always heard that Casita was a "split" from Scamp...family-wise. Does anyone know if this is true? I own a 2010 13' Scamp.
There IS one small tid-bit in the history that states that the Casita originated from Backus.... Not that it matters, but it is interesting history on all of these trailers.
Darral
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08-25-2014, 11:23 AM
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Senior Member
Name: Jon
Trailer: 2008 Scamp 13 S1
Arizona
Posts: 11,955
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trillium is no more
Darral, Google "Boler history" on this site. There is a very interesting (if convoluted and occasionally misleading) thread on the Boler and its various offshoots. Worth a read!
And yes, there was a family split.
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08-25-2014, 12:06 PM
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Senior Member
Trailer: 1972 Boler American and 1979 Trillium 4500
Posts: 5,141
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Some of what we know in this and many other threads is hearsay. Some of it is factual. Just because we read it on the internet, does not make it so.
We've had people come in saying they know the story because they are family of an original manufacture, only to come back acknowledging some of the details that have been collected. Getting details from a senior about what happened 40 or 45 years ago, can be difficult at best.
I don't know what ever happened to Matt H., he had gone across the country interviewing many people to get to the root of things for his documentary. He suddenly disappeared. I often wonder about him, hoping something serious has not happened to him.
As for the current Trillium story, Tom Young will let us know when the time is right. Until then, I consider everything posted here speculation.
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08-25-2014, 12:14 PM
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Member
Trailer: No Trailer Yet
Posts: 41
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This thread is one of the most interesting I've stumbled on! Maybe I'm a bit convoluted myself, but this is almost as good as a murder mystery.
Of course it's not as important as tire care and other safety discussions on the road, but now that I've read through this, NOT knowing EXACTLY how/when/where is VERY intriguing!
Maybe a "family" member will step up one day and write us all a book called "The Egg Mystery- SOLVED".
Darral
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