There were 4 of these cage wagons for Beatty's act. We see the old wooden tunnel sections in place, providing a complicated system of running the cats from the back trucks to the chutes and into the arena.
For 1943, Beatty was on Beatty-Wallace. The 4 trucks each had 5 cage compartments, allowing for 20 cats, unless some cages were doubled up at times with two cats. These trucks carried over the next season, on Clyde Beatty-Russell Bros.
A little more history: This paint job suggests a later season than '43 Beatty-Wallace. In Chang Reynolds's BANDWAGON article on '44 Beatty-Russell, photos have the trucks "painted yellow and lettered with blue and green". Here, we see the trucks heralding Hamid-Morton, where Beatty was for parts of 1940 and '41, with this red background and different lettering. I'm wondering if he took this paint job into his season with Beatty-Wallace--?
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There were 4 of these cage wagons for Beatty's act. We see the old wooden tunnel sections in place, providing a complicated system of running the cats from the back trucks to the chutes and into the arena.
This photo is from 1943
How many cats did he work
& how many did he carry
For 1943, Beatty was on Beatty-Wallace. The 4 trucks each had 5 cage compartments, allowing for 20 cats, unless some cages were doubled up at times with two cats. These trucks carried over the next season, on Clyde Beatty-Russell Bros.
A little more history: This paint job suggests a later season than '43 Beatty-Wallace. In Chang Reynolds's BANDWAGON article on '44 Beatty-Russell, photos have the trucks "painted yellow and lettered with blue and green". Here, we see the trucks heralding Hamid-Morton, where Beatty was for parts of 1940 and '41, with this red background and different lettering. I'm wondering if he took this paint job into his season with Beatty-Wallace--?
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