Saturday, March 03, 2007

Ben Wallace 1918


Copied from The Billboard 7/20/18.
My father wrote on the back "This truck at Wallace Quarters following the close of the Coop & Lent Motorized Circus".
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Posted by Buckles at 3/03/2007 06:26:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dear old Joe Bradbury wrote the Coop and Lent show up years ago. He didn't know for certain how this shell or "chariot" bandwagon arrived on Coop & Lent, where it was mounted on a truck chassis for their ill-fated 1918 motorized tour.

It was possibly on Welsh Bros prior to Coop & Lent, but another version has it going from Sig Sautelle to Wm P Hall and thence to Coop & Lent.

Its appearance at the Wallace farm in the post-Coop & Lent period may belie the Sautelle-Hall path as one would assume anything bought from Hall would have returned to Lancaster, not Peru.

Maybe someone out there has solved this mystery and will chime in here.

03 March, 2007 13:08
Anonymous said...

As a possible point of interest...15 or more years ago Diane and I had the opportunity to purchase a set of 11 8x10 negatives of the 1917/18 Coop & Lent show, which we did. I don't know where the photos were taken, but they include general lot shots, advertising trucks No 1 and No 3, elephant truck with four punks and the band truck you just featured here. I have been led to believe that the show went off the road because it was a truck show and all trucks, tires, etc were being swept up by the government for the war effort.

Paul Gutheil

05 March, 2007 12:54
Anonymous said...

The circus wagon bodies were mounted on the Service motor trucks at the Wallace farm. That's when the photo was taken. The bandchariot was originally fabricated for Ben Wallace. The trucks went back to their source in Wabash, IN, but none of the circus wagon bodies have been traced away from that location.

13 March, 2007 13:13

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