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I looked up and found a popup similar to the 1969 Appleby you mention. This looks like about the size they were pulling in the UK. I believe they said that is was about 250 kilos loaded. I think this works out to just about 550 pounds.
The UK Jazz is rated at 1000 Kilo (2200lbs) towing with trailer brakes and 450 Kilo (990lbs) without. I can't immagine starting from a dead stop up even a slight hill with 1000 Kilos on the back of my fit.
As a side note, I am always amazed by the size of tow vehicle for the size of trailer that they tow in the UK. Here we wouldn't think about pulling it without a Dodge Ram. There they pull the same size unit with an Audi A3. Thy just do it more sensibly than we do. You rarely see them towing on the motorways. They stick to the A & B roads which are like our State and County highways. Since they know that they are pulling with a small vehicle, they just take it easy, which can lead to long trails of cars behind the towing car. Luckily the designers of the rods there know this and built slow vehicle lanes for uphill sections and pulloffs every so often to let faster cars pass.
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