chris_g:
FarnboroughBoy11 so your saying im a pikie then !!!
You asking him or telling him? 
Some photos of Carter’s lorries here…
Coffeeholic:
Muckaway:
“drop your prices and give a ride that lasts 2 minutes”I’ve said that to more than a few women over the years.
LMAO. 
cypry0:
Had one near me the other week, charged £5.00 for an afternoon ticket and £7.50 for an evening , as many rides as you wanted. Seemed good value to me!
I am here: maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.325657,-0.870244
Sounds like the girl from the Coconut shy !! 
Harry, the pictures of the kids in the car of the Skid (on you link) brought back memories of when I used to do a bit on the set owned by Bert Stocks of Leiston years ago, jumping onto the cars when going round to ride sitting on the bar to impress the girls. Happy days, No H&S armoles then!!
raymundo:
Harry, the pictures of the kids in the car of the Skid (on you link) brought back memories of when I used to do a bit on the set owned by Bert Stocks of Leiston years ago, jumping onto the cars when going round to ride sitting on the bar to impress the girls. Happy days, No H&S armoles then!!
Very well spotted, it is a Skid (sometimes known elsewhere as an “American Whip”), I would imagine most people would have thought from the second pic that it was a Waltzer.
No, the Waltzer is where the cars can do a full 360 normally on an undulating track assisted by the boys ‘‘walking the boards’’.
Most of our wages (?) btw was made up of the change found down the backs of the cars we were looking after at the end of the night.
raymundo:
No, the Waltzer is where the cars can do a full 360 normally on an undulating track assisted by the boys ‘‘walking the boards’’.
Yep, it’s just that the cars on Skids and Waltzers look similar- in the photo I posted you can’t see the brake pedal which Skids have and Waltzers don’t- and Waltzers are far more commonly used in travelling fairs.
Sometimes I worked with identical twins on the same machine who also dressed the same, on some quiet moments one of the twins would disappear up the back of the wagon to our ‘living quarters’ with some slapper only to reappear a little later then to be replaced by his brother. 
JAKEY:
I know a Oxford fairground family very well and I can tell you they are not ■■■■■■ .
I was working with Mat Hatwell on lime yesterday; He was telling me all the liabilities that the councils put on them to restore the ground that gets churned up…
Like everywhere else its a pay pay pay situation, every thing has to be expensively insured, examination fees, issue of safety certs etc. and normally the weather is crap and the punters stay at home.
