Just the facts

Boas Bros Circus is an approximately 1:18 scale model, aka 2/3" = 1 foot. This is because BBC is a truck based show, and Dad used Tonka Trucks to build it.

Dad's vision for BBC was all about the logistics. Other model circuses highlight the performance aspects and the parade wagons, that sort of thing. Dad was much more interested in how the thing functioned. There were no performers, no audience, no roustabouts, no seat butchers, no barkers. The only concession to mammalian life forms were two lions and a panther. The model is all about the trucks.

The rolling stock inventory is as follows:
#1 Pole Truck
#2 Band Stand/Calliope Truck
#3 Stake Driver/Water Truck
#4 Ticket Office Truck
#5 Seat Truck
#6 Utility Trailer/Gilly Wagon
#7 Cage Wagon Trailer
#8 Generator Truck
#9 Spool Truck

There is a Big Top, and some extra poles that, to my recollection, went to a marquee tent that seems to have blown the show.

In the next posts, we will take a look at each of these items of inventory. Please visit again.