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FOOTBALL FETE 6,500 AT CLUB

... booths and preparing hit the road for their next Job. For the more leisurely, and particularly the young, rides on a mechanical elephant or pony were a great attraction. Then there were performances by the Variety Payre concert party, Uncle Barney,” the ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1950
Newspaper: Bognor Regis Observer
County: Sussex, England
Type: Article | Words: 794 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Jeannie, the elephant, can do 27 m.p.h. in top gear

... Children cheered and jumped on cycles to follow the monster. But it was no circus coming to town was Frank Stuart's mechanical elephant. For Frank, mask maker and inventor, has , gone into the elephant market with a machine .ishop, a welding torch 'and ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1950
Newspaper: Daily Mirror
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 222 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Mechanical Elephant Can Do 27 m.p.h

... Mechanical Elephant Can 27 m.p.h. THE only elephant the , world to have gears in her ears, an 8 h.p. engine in her hindquarters, and wheels her feet is Britain's latest and biggest—mechanical toy. Her inventor, Mr Frank Stuart, a Scot who lives at Thaxted ...

Published: Saturday 29 July 1950
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 131 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

in Old

... cathedral choir to sing the services while the regular choir is on holiday Why lambo? ask puzzled parents, “is the mechanical elephant at Seabum named Jambo instead of Jumbo?” I had wondered at this myself until I learnt the other dav that the name originated ...

WYTHNOS Coedwigoedd Gogiedd I'IPYN 0 HOPEI'S DU 123.956 0 roddion u wand I yabytaar WWI] yn y mia cyntaf Cymru

... eyfoethog yn galad l cymaint o arian i gartrefi cath- Dywedais innau wrtho ei bud yn bryd iddu chwilio am wraig. • • • Y mechanical elephant yw'r darganfyddiad gwyddonol diwedd:araf yn Aberystwyth. Fe wear 'dau ohonynt yn cario'r plant or ;lan y mor. Mae'r ...

Published: Thursday 03 August 1950
Newspaper: Welsh Gazette
County: Cardiganshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 2890 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MECHANICAL ELEPHANT

... MECHANICAL ELEPHANT Novel attraction on Margate seafront is a 10-foot high mechanical elephant, which arrived last week-end under the charge of the owner-inventor, Mr. F. Steward. When the *' animal arrived members of Margate Entertainments Committee ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1950
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 251 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Should Jeanne, the elephant, have a red rear light?

... SHOULD a life-sized mechanical elephant wear head:ights. number plates and a rear-light? This is the question that has this week been puzzling Margate's entertainments manager, Mr. Jack Green. Jeanne. the only mechanical elephant in the world—made by ...

INDEPENDENT PRESS AND CHRONICLE Friday August 4 1950 11 SAFFRON WALDEN WEEKLY NEWS uftice: CORN EXCHANGE ..

... inventor of mechanical Jumbos off to a horde reporters photographers and newsreel men Six years Frank got of building a mechanical elephant and since has worked unceasingly to perfect his machine It was worth it because duplicates Jeannie” will £1200 a-piece ...

Published: Friday 04 August 1950
Newspaper: Saffron Walden Weekly News
County: Essex, England
Type: | Words: 3127 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

POLICE TRAIL OLD CROCKS

... Folkestone: From the town to Dungeness—2s miles—an almost unbroken line of parked cars. Margate: Jennie. England s only mechanical elephant, contracted tummy trouble. wide leather belt, brought by plane, started her off again. And if the brake pedal can ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1950
Newspaper: Daily Herald
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 582 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

=ST:^^SIIIIHIIIIII MECHANICAL ELEPHANT

... =ST:^^SIIIIHIIIIII MECHANICAL ELEPHANT Novel attraction on Margate seafront is a 10-foot high mechanical elephant, which arrived last week-end under the charge the owner-inventor, Mr. F. Steward. When the animal arrived members of Margate Entertainments ...

Published: Tuesday 08 August 1950
Newspaper: Thanet Advertiser
County: Kent, England
Type: Article | Words: 200 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

AUGUST BANK HOLIDAY LARGE CROWDS AT ABERYST. *-y'rii

... witnessed the launching of the lifeboat on Monday in lovely sunshine Temperatures reached 60 degrees on Monday. The mechanical elephant on the promenade was a draw for children, as were the donkeys of I course. All outdoor entertainments were well patronised ...

Published: Thursday 10 August 1950
Newspaper: Welsh Gazette
County: Cardiganshire, Wales
Type: Article | Words: 218 | Page: 8 | Tags: none