Buckles Blog: Windjammers #8

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Scan13377, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

John Goodall said...: Looks like a cage nwagon with the air vents on the side.; 27 March, 2011 08:28
Bob Cline said...: It is John. It's one of the Cap Curtis built cages, three of which exist at Circus World Museum.
Bob; 27 March, 2011 14:30
Anonymous said...: This is quite obviously Sells-Floto #20 3 arch den. It was built, along with about 2 dozen other 2 and 3 arched dens by Cap Curtis in Peru. It was on Sells-Floto thru 1932 and was then assigned to Hagenbeck-Wallace. It was renumbered as #31 on the HW show. It is presumed to have been burned in Peru in 1941. A great article describing all of the Corporation Cages written by Stuart Thayer appears in the Nov-Dec 1971 issue of Bandwagon.
Flint; 27 March, 2011 16:25
Anonymous said...: Sells-Floto; 27 March, 2011 16:35

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