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Re: Just bought a 75 Avion [message #314969 is a reply to message #314621] Mon, 20 March 2017 18:08 Go to previous message
SteveH   United States
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I've wondered about the origin of the term "davo" before too. Regardless of the origin, it's the term used for a sofa that converts to bunk beds as labeled on the GMC floor plans posted on Billy Massey's site:

http://www.bdub.net/Floor_Plans.pdf

Davo may be an abbreviation of "Davenport", but I ran across another possible origin. Davoplane Bed Company was the name of a Chicago based company with a patented a sofa-bed design. Their design wasn't for a sofa back that converted it to a bunk, but it was for a folding mechanism to convert a sofa to a bed.

https://books.google.com/books?id=QI2QAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA303&dq=Davo-plane+Bed+Co+sofa-bed+chicago+Illinois&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwifo7- qjubSAhWJ6yYKHXgvAzIQ6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=Davo-plane%20Bed%20Co%20sofa-bed%20chicago%20Illinois&f=false






"Whoosh"; '75 Glenbrook/Clasco, CoOp roller cam, Manny tranny, 3.55 lsd, Bob Stone hydroboost w 80mm front calipers & TSM mid/rear disks, MicroLevel
Steve Hendricks
San Antonio, TX
 
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