Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Sunburst Wheel


Scan11914, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

This has been in the family for as long as I can remember. It came as a gift to my dad from the man who send the John Pawling route card above "Sunburst" Charlie Lockier".
It stands upright and looks to be about the same size as a front wheel on my 1" scale model wagons.
Still spins after all these years.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Does anybody have wheels for sale anymore? Thinking of a present for someone and don't know where to look.

Henny Youngman said...

Buckles:

I didn't know you had any models.

Does Barbara know about them?

Do they know about Barbara?

To our wives and sweethearts- may they never meet.

Anonymous said...

Charlie helped build many of the real wagons also.

4pawfan said...
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Dick Flint said...

Charlie Luckey, not Lockier, was the builder on Sells-Floto in their Denver-based years and involved with constructing the Two Jesters. Charlie Lockier was only a model builder, one of the early CMB members and maker of many of their plans in the days when the Little Circus Wagon was a mimeographed publication.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

4pawfan said...

Mr.Flint is correct, but it was Charlie Luckie not Lucky.

Buckles said...

I well remember Charlie and Katie Lucky from the Cole Show.
Never met Charlie Lockier or for that matter,Charlie Davis, another New Englander who collected elephant tail hairs.

4pawfan said...

Mr. Bradbury had spelled it Luckie in his "Circus Wagon History Files" Nov.-Dec 1958,so again my mistake.

Anonymous said...

The Davis elephant hair collection presumably survives today. As a broad, older sampling, one wonders what DNA-type analysis might be revealed by it.

Buckles said...

My dad might have been the principal contributor to Mr. Davis collection since he had access to a lot of elephants.
He would include them in the letters he wrote.
Those with not much to spare he would pull a hair from their face.