Showmen's Guild celebrates centenary this year

Did the razzle dazzle, the chairoplane or the horseplane put the wind in your hair?

The Showmen's Guild of Australasia is this year celebrating its centenary and the rides have certainly changed with the times.
President George Pink of the "trade association for showmen" has been involved in the industry for 64 years and can remember some of the earliest rides dating back to the early 1940's.
"I can remember the last horse and wagon on the showground so there's been some big changes," he said.
"My grandfather had a very large merry-go-round for the early days, of last century and early this century, and he had a ride called a razzle dazzle and you pushed it around and it used to rock."
That was the biggest ride on the showground until the chairoplane made its appearance.
"It had the tractor chairs on the end and it used to swing out, it had about 35 to 36 tractor chairs on it."
"Of course now we've got all the modern equipment run by computers; they tip you upside down, turn you inside out, spit you out and put you back on the ground again. "Click here to read the full story