Howes Great London 1920 #1

Scan12709, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. The previous year 1919, Jerry Mugivan and Bert Bowers, owners of the John Robinson Circus, joined Ed Ballard, owner of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus to form the American Circus Corp. In 1920 both of these shows remained on 30 cars and a third unit was framed on 15 cars and named Howes Great London Shows, a title often used by Mugivan and Bowers in the past. For the new show three elephants were purchased from William P. Hall, "Lockhart Nellie", "Barnum Alice" and "Wallace Lizzie" plus a young male from Sangers Midgets "Toto". Joe Metcalf was hired as elephant boss while Chris Zeitz remained with John Robinson (10 elephants) and Bert Noyes with H-W (10 elephants).