Wednesday, November 10, 2010

1949 Ringling-Barnum #15


16, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

9 comments:

JIM ELLIOTT said...

First time I have seen a pix of this wagon. Very interesting and entertaining, too have studied, the details, in these pixs.

Chic Silber said...

This looks like it might be a

boiler for cookhouse washing water

Anonymous said...

Was this boiler oil or coal fired? I see the electric panel and what appears to be the blower motor.
Agree with Jim, amazing detail in these two sets of photos, thanks to all!
Erik Jaeger

Anonymous said...

Looks like a Cleaver-Brooks boiler, likely for cookhouse use.

Chic Silber said...

I'd bet it was #2 oil Erik so

that it would be a common fuel

as used in the generators

Frank Ferrante said...

... and sometimes we read in our own details. At first glance I thought this was a guy enjoying his paper while smoking a pipe. (Thought that was a VERY dangerous place to be smoking on the lot.)
Blowing up the picture, I see that what I thought was a pipe is actually a hasp on the wagon. ~frank

Jerry Cash said...

Dennis thanks for sharing these wonderful pictures. It's like stepping back in time, lifting the canvas flap and seeing a world you had not seen before. Some photographers have the ability to take pictures that tell a story. Tom was one of those.
Jerry Cash

Hal Guyon said...

This is a Cleaver-Brooks Steam Boiler just like the one`s used for old radiator heat in buildings and homes. I remember as a kid working on a many of the same type boilers with my dad who was a plumbing & heating contractor. It was fuel oil fired and was used to generate steam for serving tables and cookhouse kettles seen in the background & in picture #11. I not sure if it provided steam for the dishwasher it may have had it`s own boiler.

Hal Guyon said...

Excuse me, I meant picture #12.