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ISO My name is Amos Roleau. Christine and I have a 1937 Model B Travelodge trailer and live in Vermont. When we were at the Kalamazoo meet at Gilmore last year a fellow said he had been in the trailer industry for many years had a Bendix vacuum controller that was sitting on his shelf and did not know what it would go on. When I expressed interest in the controller, I asked him what he wanted for it. He said he would give it to us. We gave him our address but unfortunately we got busy and didn’t get his address. I was and am very willing to purchase it from him or anyone who might have one of these controllers. The Travelodge trailer has a vacuum over hydraulic brake system. It uses a vacuum power brake unit in the trailer the same as in the car. With the same manifold vacuum as the car. Please ask anybody you know if they know of one of these units. All help would be greatly appreciated. [email protected]
I reply hoping it may help you. In the 1970s my Dad bought a fairly heavy-duty cargo trailer for the farm, and it had vacuum/hydraulic brakes. There was a vacuum booster/ master cylinder mounted on the tongue of the trailer. There was a rubber hose with a quick-connect that took engine vacuum from a controller on the truck to the assembly on the tongue and I assumed that it applied the trailer brakes in proportion to the braking in the truck. The brakes on thevtrailer were almost identical to those on a 3/4 ton pickup, just hydraulic drum brakes.
This trailer was built in Bryan, Texas, by a company named “Gooseneck” which I think is still in business. Perhaps there are parts you can use from this industry.