Number 5 - the Seat Truck

The Seat Truck, or perhaps the Seat Wagon, would drive inside the big top after the tent was set up. The truck would park along the side of the tent across from the back door, and right up against the side poles.

Stringers would then be attached to the lip along the right side of the trailer. These stringers would angle down to the ground.

Next, the steel retaining poles on the right side of the trailer would be removed and the seating platforms unloaded and placed on the stringers with the top several rows of seats mounted on the trailer.

Typically, a show would have several of these trucks parked around the tent. I don't know if Dad's vision had more seat trucks in it, or just freestanding bleachers, or if one seat wagon was enough for proof of concept, since he seems to have been designing a full scale circus, although, at that time he had no inkling that he would end up doing just that.

This unit really needs some TLC. It is terribly dirty, the stringers have all gone missing, and many of the glue joints holding the seating benches in place have given up. The platform for the aisle between the lower seating platforms is missing, and there are only two of the retaining poles left, and they are rusty.

This is gonna be fun!

Coming up, the Utility Trailer/Gilly Wagon. Hope you can drop by.