Is this the wagon you're thinking
of? It is a twin and one of the same series of cages built by the Moellers for
the Ringling show. Thayer and Conover deduced that these twins were numbers 45
and 46. Both were still on the 1918 show and went into Bridgeport. This one was
sold to Hunt Bros and the other must have been lost in a paint shop fire in
1924.
Dave Price
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
To Dick Flint
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Yes, and thanks Dave. And as you can understand it takes a little more effort for me to get to my reference files to check on what memory tells me. Plus I'm reluctant to rely on my memory! But I do remember the Bandwagon article they wrote!
Didn't one of these cages end up on Howard and Floyd King's Gentry show in the late 1920s?
So how about the Cinderella coach?
Dick Flint
Baltimore
Actually the brothers King got three of this set, but unlike the one that went to Hunt from Bridgeport, they bought them out of the equipment still in Baraboo.
1925 was the year they went to flat cars using wagons from several sources. These three were on their Walter L Main show 1925-27 which became their Gentry Bros 1928-29, which of course failed that year.
Donaldson litho took the show to the old HW quarters in West Baden and I lose track of them there. Possibly the one later used by Soules and conceivably others were acquired at West Baden by the Otis L Smith Shows.
And yes indeed I do know about the limitations that stroke victims face. There are many things I need to do and just can't accomplish anymore.
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