Airstream Inc.

Airstream Inc. has been building the world's finest travel trailers and motorhomes since 1931. The Airstream factory and business offices, which are located in Jackson Center, Ohio, are the home of a one-of-a-kind repository of video, film, photography, and artifacts pertaining to the past, present, and future of this American icon of product quality and customer service. Airstream, Inc. is an Airstreams Across Africa video project sponsor. In this role, the Airstream Department of Marketing has agreed via signed MOU to permit Moriarty Media to use the historic 1959 Cape Town to Cairo Africa Caravan story featuring Wally Byam, creator of the Airstream travel trailer, founder of Airstream, Inc., and 1959 Africa Caravan leader, and has provided Moriarty Media with historical footage and photographs for use in this video project.   

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"Don't live in the past or future. Make history. Get enjoyment out of the little things. Cultivate will power. Treat Mayme nice." (Mayme was Byam's high school sweetheart.)

— Wally Byam, visionary, successful business man, builder of community, creator of the Airstream travel trailer, founder of Airstream, Inc. and the WBCCI, and intrepid caravan leader for the 1959 Africa Caravan

Byam, Wally. (1916) "Affirmation." Wally Byam's journal entry for November 26, 1916 as pictured in Russ Banham's Wanderlust: Airstream at 75. (p. 33) Greenwich Publishing Group, Inc.: Old Saybrook, CT.

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