Show POWER PLANT FOR A CIRCUS electricity in any amount Is available for use in illuminating huge tents in evening illuminating tho the big top for the evening performance of a large circus has taxed the ingenuity of circus men for many years now two of tho the largest circuses in the world have decided to carry along their own private electric light plant and to illuminate everything from the big top to tho the oldo eldo shows with the birc circus 1 us electric light plant con slats of a casolene ga solene engine and electric dynamo combined and mounted upon a suitable BUlt ablo wagon this plant is really very small considering its ita power and requires but nn an ordinary circus wagon for its transportation A garolene ga solene solone engino engine Is mounted in the same frame and upon the same shaft with a pow or er electric generator or dynamo dynamo when the ga engine to la started electricity Is instantly inet antly available in any amount required for the circus illumination allum In atlon of course the plant is in qu duplicate in case anything should hap pen en route tho the tents are all wired for electric lights this wire Is arranged so BO it can be easily and quickly put in place and as easily taken down when tho evening performance la Is over A large and heavily insulated cable bablo carries tho current from the tha dynamo to the main tent the current is controlled and directed fro i 4 a small switchboard mounted upon the wagon with the plant the operation of this plant la is very simple Bl the garolene ga solene solone engine runs automatically without attention being governed to produce only tho the amount of power required to whirl the dynamo for the various lamps as they are turned on |