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B705 BAV
ERF C-series
Tom Smith, Dodgems
Great Horwood, 6 August 2007
Based locally at Stoke Hammond, Tom Smith presents a small fair in the village of Great Horwood in support of the annual Feast. The ground is tight and this unit appears to almost be in someone's front garden!
Showmans dodgems trailer
Seen at the 2021 Peterborough Truckfest
Trailer belongs to John Birch & Sons
RO52 KYG
Foden Alpha
John Thurston, 'Grand Prix' Dodgems
Everard Meadow, Bedford, 11 April 2011
This may appear to be a Foden but as far as the DVLA are concerned it is the only Iveco-Ford Alpha in existence!
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
VX51 YDA
Iveco EuroTech
Thomas Emmett, Dodgems
Deanshanger, 12 October 2012
This is another addition to Thomas Emmett's transport fleet but is somewhat overshadowed by the magnificent new Scania. A rare example of a HGV Iveco on the fairs, it was purchased to pull his fold-up dodgem track which has recently been converted from a drawbar trailer to an articulated load. and was a low-mileage bargain, having only previously been employed as a shunter.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
1st & 2nd June 2013
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on first day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Another shot of the Foden Alpha 3000 M11 440 XL, reg. no. W554 COM, operated by Stuart Danter & Sons hauling the 'Drivetime' dodgems ride for Danter's Fun Fair. The fair was situated on the riverside in Newport, South Wales for the annual 'The Big Splash' event. The picture was taken on 15 July 2012.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
S838 DNV
1998 Scania P94C 310
Thomas Emmett, Dodgems
Campbell Park, Milton Keynes, 23 October 2009
I've been asked if I have a picture of the nearside of Thomas Emmett's Dodgem lorry so here it is. This is the more difficult side to photograph as it is usually parked with this side against the back of the ride, and this shot was taken in the very early stages of build up at the 2009 Bonfire Fair. The theme of the artwork is 'fast cars and fast women'.
Woolpit Steam
May 31st & June 1st 2014
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on 2nd day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Most of the early funfair rides were things like carousels, Noah's arks and dodgems. Exciting rides, but all with a similar movement, you go around in circles. What we would call thrill rides came later, and nowadays most of the high thrill attractions have you leave the ground. One of the earliest examples of this was the Dive Bomber.
Initially created by the Eyerly Aircraft company which was formed to create equipment to help train pilots. They moved into the amusement ride arena, and gradually moved away from their original business model. Much of what they designed had an aviation feel, and the dive bomber was no exception.
Roll O Plane
Roll-O-Plane
Patented in 1938 by Eyerly, as the 'Roll-O-Plane', the ride had two cylindrical shaped cars on the end of a rotating boom. As the arm rotated the ends of the cylinders rotated to keep the riders sitting upright. The chain drive made it a particularly noisy ride, added to the usual decor of a fighter plane and it was an imposing, thrilling ride for the era.
Lusse Dive Bomber
Dive Bomber
Lusse Brothers of Blackpool (American designers) developed the ride for the UK market under licence from Eyerly. Building their first version in 1939 and the last of 25 examples in 1949. With the recent end of WWII the ride was perfectly themed for the fairgoers of that era.
One of the drawbacks was its low passenger capacity, but a number of enterprising UK showmen, joined two rides together to double this as in the Carters model above.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
I love 'em! My friend Sam took this, she's just about to have a baby so didn't want to risk a go on the dodgems. Her partner Andy and I had no such encumberances.....
Woolpit Steam
May 31st & June 1st 2014
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photos taken on 2nd day)
Featuring:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
X4 JTN (ex FN02 WLG)
ERF ECS
Thomas Henry Botton & Mark Manning, Dodgems
Russell Park, Bedford, 18 July 2012
Old Tyme Funfairs have replaced most of their fleet within the last couple of years due to the London Low Emission Zone, which has killed off a lot of the older lorries that travelled in the area. The traditional build-up dodgems purchased from Jennings Brothers came with an eight-wheel ERF E10 but that lorry was pensioned off last summer and replaced by this ECS, which despite its X-prefix cherished registration actually dates from 2002. The body came off the old lorry but has been extensively modified to fit the new chassis as it was a luton in its previous form.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
Woolpit Steam
May 26th & May 27th 2012
Warren Farm, Wetherden
(Photographs taken on second day)
Featuring this year Motor Ploughs, which first appeared in the years before the First World War.
Also on show were:
Stationary Engines
Vintage Cars
Motorcycles
Vintage Tractors
Working Vintage Farm Machinery
Steam & Traction Engines
Military, Light & Heavy Commercial Vehicles
Model Displays
To keep the kids happy there was a old traditional Fun Fair, including Savage Electric Yachts (1915), Dodgems, Children’s Car Ride & Roundabout plus Old Time Amusement Arcade.
VX51 YDA
Iveco EuroTech
Thomas Emmett, Dodgems
Campbell Park, Milton Keynes, 5 June 2017
Something of a holy grail of fairground loads that is very rarely seen on the move. It doesn't come out of the yard very often and when it does, it doesn't usually travel very far, builds up early and pulls down late so it is very difficult to catch in load form.