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Caravan insurance customers will have the opportunity to see a wooden caravan dating back to 1908 when it goes on display in a museum in Denbigshire.

According to the BBC, the holiday home built by an artist, A W Haslam, in Derbyshire has been on loan to the museum for a number of years.

It is thought the single-berth caravan was last used in 1960 and now Ann and Gwilym Own, who run the museum, have been researching its history as it marks its 100-year anniversary.

Mr Owen told the BBC that it had been generally accepted that caravans specifically designed to be towed by motor vehicles were first used in 1915.

"This puts our caravan some seven years earlier than the current histories believe, which makes it a very important piece of British motoring heritage," Mr Owen explained.

Although it has undergone "a little bit of modernisation over the years", the caravan is essentially the same as it was when it was first built, he said.

"It's very much like a garden shed on wheels and I can imagine it was very cosy in its day, especially if you tried to fit more than one person inside it," he added.

Between March and October, the museum is open Tuesday to Sunday.

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