OUTSIDE THE MICRON
While the Micron might be an‘ entry level’ caravan, it stills gets the full Royal Flair attention to detail. Visually, it’ s a good-looking caravan designed primarily for holiday park stays rather than long trips into remote areas. Built atop a painted 4in SupaGal chassis with a 2in chassis raiser and a 4in drawbar, the body is built from fibreglass sandwich panels and a‘ honeycomb’ flooring system, materials that weren’ t available when the Micron made its debut decades ago.
This year, Royal Flair introduced smooth, powder-coated Bluescope steel sheeting, using it as the preferred protective material over the cladding instead of black checkerplate.
Our review Micron was a prototype, and there have been some minor changes to production vans. For example, the van we checked out had a fairly low skirting of this material, which is functionally the same as checkerplate – it just looks more contemporary. However, production vans have 600mmhigh side plates and a 1000mmhigh front plate.
The fibreglass sandwich panel construction is a big tick in this van’ s favour, though. It not only looks good, it is also hail and dentresistant, while the XPS closedcell foam core offers excellent insulating properties as well as structural strength.
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