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>There were even more times when the laborers were miss-treated. It was
not until after WW II when John Ringling North bought a fleet of surplus
army hospital coaches and converted them to dorms that the common
laborer on the circus had a bunk (2 men to a bunk) to sleep in Some of Ringlings first cars were WWI hospital cars that were used up to the purchase of the WWII cars. Bandwagon, the official magazine of carnivals and circuses published a four-part article covering many of the cars that were employed. If anyone is interested email me off list and I will get the dates off my copies.-- jerry "N"quiring minds want to know!!!
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