Engineering

Plan for Noah's Ark Roundabout Blueprint, c1930 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178M15.25(ix)

Scope and Contents

Blueprint of plan of Noah's ark roundabout to scale, stamped Geo. Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd Burton on Trent.

Dates: c1930 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Blueprints and Elevation Drawings

Plan for Ride Track, c1920 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178V10.51(iv)

Scope and Contents

Scaled plan of flooring section for starting track and elevations. Pencil on paper.

Dates: c1920 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Original Artwork / Drawings and Plans for Ride Designs

Plan for Switchback, 31 August 1894

Item

Reference code: 178M15.35(lxvi)

Scope and Contents

Plan and narrow frames for switchback for Aspland, stamped F. Savage Co. Limited, King's Lynn England, Engineers and Machinists.

Dates: 31 August 1894

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Blueprints of Plans and Elevation Drawings for Various Fairground Rides

Plan for Whirlwind Racer Track Blueprint, c1930 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178M15.25(x)

Scope and Contents

Blueprint of plan of whrilwind racer track to scale, showing the sleepers and stretchers.

Dates: c1930 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Blueprints and Elevation Drawings

Plan of Fairground Ride Sleepers, c1920 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178V10.49(ii)

Scope and Contents

Design sections of fairground ride sleepers. Pencil on paper.

Dates: c1920 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Original Artwork / Plans and Drawings for Ride Mechanisms and Components

Plan of Foster's Road Loco 7 N.H.P., c1960 - 1969

Item

Reference code: 178M5.11

Scope and Contents

Official plan of Foster Showman’s Road Loco of 7 N.H.P.

Dates: c1960 - 1969

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Arthur Jones Collection / Plans

Plan of Ride Platform, c1920 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178V10.51(vii)

Scope and Contents

Scale drawing of segment of ride platfrom. Pencil on paper.

Dates: c1920 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Original Artwork / Drawings and Plans for Ride Designs

Plan of Running Platforms, c1920 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178M15.34(liii)

Scope and Contents

Section of running platforms plan, scale 1". Stampped Geo. Orton, Sons & Spooner Ltd, Burton-on-Trent.

Dates: c1920 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Blueprints of Plans and Elevation Drawings for Various Fairground Rides

Plan of Running Platforms Blueprint, c1930 - 1939

Item

Reference code: 178M15.25(iii)

Scope and Contents

Blueprint for plan of running platforms to scale, stamped Geo. Orton, Sons & Spooner Burton on Trent.

Dates: c1930 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection / Plans / Blueprints and Elevation Drawings

Plans, c1930 - 1989

Series

Reference code: 178M5

Scope and Contents

Plans and drawings for fairground ride models and original rides.

Dates: c1930 - 1989

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Arthur Jones Collection

Plans, c1916 - 1939

Series

Reference code: 178M15

Scope and Contents

Blueprints of electric parts for fairground rides supplied by Mather & Platt Ltd and Hackett & Co., Electrical Engineers to Orton and Spooner.

Dates: c1916 - 1939

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Orton and Spooner Collection

Plans and Drawings for Ride Mechanisms and Components, c1890 - 1939

File

Reference code: 178V10.49

Scope and Contents

Plans and drawings for ride mechanisms for organs, J. Collins big boats and scenic car axels and boxes, details of horizontal shaft and tee swift for juvenile roundabout, water dodgem drifters, W. Davis top motion gallopers, electric yacht bearings, break return ropes for whirlwind racer, floor bearers and sleepers, helter skelter washer plates, cotter bolts and pins.

Dates: c1890 - 1939