New Bailey for Kay Bailey as her father’s company celebrates its 75th Anniversary
Kay Taylor (nee Bailey), daughter of company founder Martin Bailey, and her husband Phil have purchased a new Alicanto Grande Evora from Chipping Sodbury Caravans.
It’s a new Bailey for Kay Bailey (now Taylor) as her father’s company celebrates its 75th Anniversary. Kay and her husband Phil purchased their new Alicanto Grande Evora from Chipping Sodbury Caravans, part exchanging their existing Unicorn Cabrera in the process. As part of a double celebration, their good friends David and Margaret Young also purchased the same model from the same retailer at the same time!
Sadly, Martin passed away twenty years ago, but Kay’s mother, Joan Bailey, is still in fine form at the age of ninety-three. She was also present at the recent handover of the two new caravans, which was carried out by Jamie Pickford, the owner of Chipping Sodbury Caravans.
Martin Bailey started his working career as an apprentice cabinet maker at A. G. Farmers in Bristol, where he trained to become a fully qualified carpenter joiner. Following the outbreak of World War II, he was then seconded to the Bristol Airplane Company, where he learned new sheet metalworking skills working on planes such as the Bristol Blenheim and Bristol Beaufort. After the war, Martin returned to his trade as a cabinet maker and set up his own joinery business producing furniture. His career path took a different turn shortly after that when a neighbour asked for his assistance in building a caravan in his backyard. After this successful trial, Martin quickly realised that he had all the engineering skills necessary to design and manufacture caravans on a commercial basis and the premises in which to build them. The rest, as they say, is history…