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Subject Topic: Help required I.D Robert Saunders Tent
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PersonBradfordlad
18/10/2017 at 2:56pm
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Can you please help identify this tent ...I think its about 40 years old. It has doors front and rear and the fly sheet is an HEX with lots of room around a single bedroom it weighs less than 2kg   Thankyou

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Doors Open
Front Door Closed
Thermal Groundsheet


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R Saunders

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020 85002447
020 85598668


Personsteel
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Quote: Originally posted by SGThomas on 18/10/2017
Contact:

R Saunders

Phone:

020 85002447
020 85598668


Reading elsewhere on line I believe that Robert Saunders Tents Ltd ceased trading a few years ago and Robert Saunders passed away.



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Yes he passed away quite a few years ago now...I think this was maybe a prototype tent as no one has heard of it or seen one.I was trying to identify it to value it.


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I believe this to be a Robert Saunders Basecamp Tent, one of the first transverse ridger tents from the early 70's


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Base packer?

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/tents/p/Saunders-Base-Packer/3012

Though the label is early. Later tents had a stylized sloping ridge with pine trees and for "mountain Moor and meadow" and underneath "top tents"
I had a fellpine. That and the jetpacker were the best backpacking tents out and if still made would still be up at the top.
Bob Saunders died five years ago. A great innovator and by all accounts a very genuine person.

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Cheers so far guys is there a reason the label calls the tent a different name also the bedroom is Blue material....what a mystery ha ha


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The way back machine has the old Saunders website...saunders



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Thanks Ewen C for link



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