Mine were painted black, but others I've seen are gray. Olivier sent me this image of the original tag from his privy tent. Weather resistant Y ou begin by assembling the frame onto the top piece of canvas and hanging it on your bus. A row of fasteners lines the outer edges of the top, and the other three pieces of canvas form the front, back, and side walls. Leather straps secure the walls to the stay poles, and stakes hold the bottom edges down as in the foyer tent.
T here are no windows or doors, but the canvas pieces zip together to form a weather-tight seal.
The tent is big enough for two cots, cooking tables, or just sitting around. The lower edge of the side flap has a pocket and grommets, apparently for some arrangement for extending it out like the awnings on later tents, but I have no extra poles or guy ropes for this. The Crandall article says you can remove the outer side pole from the top and slide it into the pocket on the outer flap, but that seems unstable. All tent front wall pieces were made with the bottom pocket and leather grommets. We have seen several tents from different years of manufacture and they all exhibited the pocket and grommets.