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Volume 2 Number 3 Summer 2005 40 14 26 21 Roughing it Features Smoothly The 42' Quad Slide A Journey Beautiful Allegro Bus 14 A Journey Ended 26 July 2005 Volume 2, Number 3 The Legacy Continues A Poignant and Personal Story Roughing It Smoothly® magazine is published four times a year by Book Production Resources for Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc., 105 2nd Street NW, Red Bay, Alabama Ocala, Florida 21 Northern Idaho and the 35582. BPR offices are located at 9302 Alanbrooke Street, Temple Terrace, Florida 33637. Printed in the United Horse Capital of the World Selkirk Loop into B.C. 40 States of America. Postage paid at Omaha, Nebraska 10 Days in the Great State of Idaho 68147. Postmaster: Send all changes of address to Book Production Resources, P.O. Box 292912, Tampa, Florida 33687-2912. This issue of Roughing It Smoothly® has a postal distribution of approximately 35,000 copies and a dealer distribution Departments of 10,000 copies. It is printed by Walsworth Publishing Company, 803 S. 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The following names are registered trademarks of Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.: Open Road®, Phaeton®, Allegro®, Allegro Bay®, Allegro Bus®, Zephyr®, Roughing It Smoothly®, and Pusher®. PRESIDENT’S CORNER 2IDINGONA3PARTANCHASSISISLIKEHAVINGAFULL TIME TECHNICIANONBOARD/URNATIONWIDECOACHCARE %VERYTHINGS2IDING/N)T» Bob Hardin: I’m just glad I know him. CENTERSANDSERVICEMEANWERE by Bob Tiffin AVAILABLEWHEREVER YOUNEEDUS h7HEN)WASONMYWAYTOARALLYIN4AMPA THEAIR DRYERONMY@COACHNEEDEDAREPLACEMENT SO) Each of us can think of at least one per- County. But Mr. Alex saw my Flint truck tory man” had taken care of her problem. son we have known over the years and say, parked outside Tiffin Supply with me in I went back to Red Bay and told Mr. Alex, CALLED3PARTAN4HEYSHIPPEDTHEPARTOVERNIGHTSOIT “I’m just glad I know him or her.” I can my company uniform and it clicked in his “The next time you send me out as a ‘fac- WOULDMEETMEATTHERALLYIN4AMPA.OTONLYWASIT think of several, but one person who al- mind, “Here’s the man to get that lady’s tory man’ you be sure to tell me what fac- ways comes to mind is Bob Hardin. His air conditioner fixed.” tory I’m from!” We chuckled about that THEREWHEN)ARRIVED BUTA3PARTANTECHNICIANINSTALLEDIT patience, skill, and ingenuity have meant So off I went to Russellville. When I got visit for a long time. FORMEON SITE4HESUPPORT)RECEIVEDFROM3PARTAN so much to me, my Daddy, and Tiffin to her house, the first thing she asked me After I came home from Flint Refrigera- WASOUTSTANDING9OUCANBEASSUREDMYNEXT Motorhomes over the years. More than was, “What company do you represent?” tion Friday afternoons, I would work on my once he’s “pulled my bacon out of the Mr. Alex had forgotten to tell me what own accounts that were outside of their ter- MOTORHOMEWILLBEONA3PARTANCHASSISv fire.” But rather than me trying to tell brand her air conditioner was. My truck ritory. It wasn’t long until I was able to start you this story, I would like you to hear it and uniform had a Westinghouse logo Hardin Heating and Cooling in Red Bay. I in first person. So here’s Bob Hardin. on it. She finally let me see her air condi- had specialized in wiring control systems at tioner, and I quickly responded, “Oh, yes Flint which helped me generate more work 30!24!.#(!33)3#/- I’ve know the Tiffins since I was a kid in ma’am, Westinghouse makes this brand.” beyond the HVAC business. #USTOMER3ERVICE high school. I’m 71 now — about eight It really didn’t take much to get it fixed Tiffin Supply continued to expand in years older than Bob. Emma and I got and I left with her thinking that a “fac- a lot of directions and Mr. Alex always married when I was 17. We were high school sweethearts. On Sunday after- noons in the summertime, we used to go by and get Bob and his younger brother, David, in my ’32 Ford with a rumble seat and take them swimmin’ down at the creek. I guess Bob was about nine then. After high school, I went to the Com- mercial Trade Institute and finished up there in February 1956. Although I want- ed to be in business for myself, in order to get some really good experience I ac- cepted a position with Flint Refrigeration in Huntsville when that town really start- ed growing. I spent the week working in Huntsville and the weekends at home in Red Bay. Flint liked my work and had me take the company truck home with me on weekends so I could do emergency calls if needed. The truck was all painted up with the Flint designs and several AC logos on it. Mr. Alex, Bob’s daddy, was building houses in Russellville. The owner of one of the houses he had sold was having trouble with her central air system. Earlier efforts to fix it had been unsuccessful and HOMPSON she decided she wanted a “factory man.” T D E R There wasn’t a “factory man” in Franklin F 4 Roughing It Smoothly 43012SpartanMH_Ad(8.375x10.875).indd 1 5/17/05 3:15:34 PM CUAU2597_MotorhomeAd 6/25/04 2:59 PM Page 1 called on me to do the wiring and wiring that pencil between his hands, he spurt- bile home plant in 2003 to use for the control systems.