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I NEWS IN BRIEF THE SOMME SERVICE TO-MORROW

... ELEPHANT rides are replacing the traditional donkey jaunts on the sands this year. But it's no ordinary jumbo. This is mechanical elephant. Operated baby car engine, runs on four wheels, waggles its ears, rolls its eyes and waves its trunk —which Is the exhaust ...

Published: Saturday 03 July 1948
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1260 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

MECHANICAL ELEPHANTS FOR HULL PARKS

... MECHANICAL ELEPHANTS FOR HULL PARKS HULL KIDDIES will soon be riding on mechanical baby elephants, the first to be sponsored by public authority. This was revealed at a meeting of the Parks and Burials Committee, when it was agreed th;U Ihree of the ...

Published: Thursday 09 June 1949
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 198 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

'ELEPHANTS' FILMED

... 'ELEPHANTS' FILMED HULL'S mechanical elephants are the city's latest film stars. They were shot as they paraded in the Queen's Gardens, and the only difficulty was one of keeping the big crowd of onlookers out of the way. Musical broadcasts in the parks ...

Published: Friday 24 June 1949
Newspaper: Hull Daily Mail
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 100 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

HUDDERSFIELD DAILY EXAMINER THURSDAY AUGUST 4 1949 Telephone 2720 line) ALTU and its Aims Towards Freedom i - i ..

... and the Rhyl Silver Prize Band will play in the There are paddling find boating pools opportunity a ride on Bambo the mechanical elephant At the Amphitheatre there Mr Billie Manders’ concert party the Quaintesques” At open swimming pool Leon Marco’s Carnival ...

Published: Thursday 04 August 1949
Newspaper: Huddersfield Daily Examiner
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 5115 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

into show business

... railway from June 14 to July 2 were £149 195 3d. while the total of £52 had been taken between May 28 and July 2 for the mechanical elephant. There was a decrease in revenue from the hire of tents and chairs during the current financial year of £123 tis 9d ...

Published: Friday 14 July 1950
Newspaper: Cleveland Standard
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 819 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Chair, tent takings a 'miracle'

... to August 25. All of the outdoor entertain•ments showed a decreas.t on last year except the miniature railway and mechanical elephant which are new attractions. Revenue from the boating lake in the Coatham enclosure was £2.615, a drop of £443. Miniature ...

Published: Friday 29 September 1950
Newspaper: Cleveland Standard
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 448 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

Moving with the timet

... Moving with the timet In any case Scarborough makes no apologies for mechanical elephants and other such contrivances. It recognises the fact that universal holldays-wlth-pay are bringing far more of the type people who like mechanical entertainment than ...

A Spa attraction

... carry only six adults; we can carry eight. And Mr. Stuart should know, for he Is a Fellow the Zoological Society. Mechanical elephants may not be exactly In the old Spa tradition, but should be noted that this little frolic takes place at a discreet ...

SCARBOROUGH DRAWS BIG HOLIDAY CROWDS

... SCARBOROUGH DRAWS BIG HOLIDAY CROWDS Busy snackrbars: a mechanical elephant: frolics on the foreshore From Our Special Correspondent, DERRICK BOOTHROYD SCARBOROUGH, Sunday Night THE weather forecast talked of a trough of low pressure and depressions mid- ...

mechanical elephant Scarborough's latest attraction is a mechanical life-size elephant. It was described in ..

... mechanical elephant Scarborough's latest attraction is a mechanical life-size elephant. It was described in Derrick Boothroyd's Scarborough holiday article in yesterday's Yorkshire Post. Operated by an engine fitted inside it. the elephant has a speed ...

A TASTE of the rope's end the hand of the Pirate Captain of the lllspantola, Scarborough, for a young visitor

... GUI (left), Exeter, and Valerie (below) en liornsea boating pool • Leeds. RIGHT.—Voung makers Scarborough ride on a mechanical elephant which draw* are Susan Brooke (9). from rheshlrr. and her sister, l g . , .H 1111 -/'■■ * ' 1 ' THIS yachting study ...

Published: Saturday 31 May 1952
Newspaper: Yorkshire Evening Post
County: Yorkshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 229 | Page: 7 | Tags: none