CUB MARKS
HALF CENTURY
CUB CAMPERS IS CELEBRATING ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY.
Cub Campers, which employs 60 people and
has a multi-million dollar annual turnover, was
established in 1968, and has remained in the
same family, the Fagan family, since its first
day of operation.
It all began when retired pharmacist JK
Fagan purchased a small block of flats with
an adjoining box trailer
business in Lakemba,
south-west Sydney.
JK’s idea was to
rent out the flats
and outsource the
business, but when
his son, Roger,
came on board,
he had other
Roger Fagan founded Cub Campers
ideas.
with his father 50 years ago.
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Roger saw the potential in the RV market and
invented what Cub believes to be the first soft
floor camper, which was known as the Trailer
Camper. Though it was little more than a box
trailer with a canvas roof, it would be the start
of a business that would go on to produce
20,000 camper trailers and counting.
“The process was more of an evolution rather
than a one-off design,” says Roger Fagan.
“We used to manufacturer horse floats and
sell them to buyers in western Queensland.
The roads there were very rugged with lots
of corrugations, so we had to strengthen the
chassis and suspension to make sure it could
cope with the conditions. We then adapted that
design to suit our camper trailers.”
In the 1990s, Roger invented the ‘Ezy-Wind’
system that revolutionised camper trailer set-up.