Amusement ride
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An amusement ride is any number of devices found in funfairs and amusement parks meant to appeal to various senses of the rider.
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Types
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Amusement park rides
Larger rides, normally only found in amusement parks
- Dark rides
- Ferris wheels or Big wheels
- Freefall towers
- Gravitron
- House of mirrors
- Log flumes
- Loop-O-Plane
- Megadrop
- Motion platforms
- Observation towers
- Roller coasters
- Shoot-the-Chutes
- Sightseeing trains
- The Zipper
- Tilt-A-Whirl
- Train rides
Funfair rides
Traditional and transportable rides found in funfairs, many of which may also be found in amusement parks
- Ark
- Autodrome
- Booster
- Breakdance
- Bumper cars or Dodgems
- Carousels or Merry-go-round
- Chair-O-Planes or Swing Carousel
- Dive bomber
- Flying coaster
- Freak Out
- Gallopers
- Ghost train
- Helter Skelter
- Jolly tubes
- Jump and smile
- Matterhorn
- Miami
- Orbiter
- Octopus
- Paratrooper
- Reverse bungee
- Rotor
- Round up
- Simulator
- Steam yachts
- Super star
- Superbob
- Swinging gyms
- Tagada
- Top spin
- Trabant
- Train rides, "kiddie ride" type
- Tri-star
- Twist
- Waltzer
Amusement ride manufactures
Most new amusement rides are innovations of one of the major amusement ride manufactures, and infact many ride types are virtualy brand names for particular product line.
From time to time, individual rides are manufactured or reproduced by large engineering companies, but the major manufactures in the history of amusement rides are:
- Aero Affiliates (USA)
- AMECO (USA)
- A.R.M. (UK) - Turnagain
- Bakker
- Bembom Rides (UK)[1]
- Bennetts (UK)
- Cadoxton (UK)
- Chance Rides Manufacturing (USA)[2] - Chance Morgan
- Church (UK)
- Dartron Industries (USA)[3]
- Eli Bridge (USA)[4]
- Lee Eyerly (USA)
- Far Fabbri (Italy) - Megadrop
- Gravity Works, Inc (USA)[5]
- Great Coasters International (USA)[6]
- Edwin Hall (UK)
- Hayes Fabrication (UK)
- Hopkins Amusement Rides (USA)[7]
- Huss Maschinenfabrik (Germany)[8]
- Hrubetz
- Intamin AG (Liechtenstein)[9]
- Jacksons (UK)
- Caspar Klaus (Germany)
- KMG (Netherlands) - Kermis Machinebouw Gaasendam[10]
- L & T Systems Amusement Rides (USA)[11]
- Lang Wheels (UK)
- Larson International (USA)[12]
- Lusse Company (UK)
- Mack Rides (Germany) [13]
- Maxwells (UK)
- Mondial Rides (Netherlands) [14]
- Moser Rides (Italy)[15]
- Norson Power (UK)
- Premier Rides (USA)[16]
- Protech
- Pollards (UK)
- PWS (UK)
- Reverchon Industries (France)[17]
- Rollercoaster Corporation of America (USA)
- Ronald Bussink Professional Rides (Switzerland)[18]
- S & S Power Inc (USA)[19] - Arrow Dynamics
- Safeco (Spain)
- Sally Corp (USA)[20]
- Sartori Rides Int'l Group (Italy)[21] - Claudio Sartori
- SBF Rides (Italy)[22]
- Anton Schwarzkopf(Germany)
- Sellner Manufacturing Co (USA)[23]
- Sobema
- Soli s.r.l. (Italy)[24]
- Soriani
- Joe and Perrin Stevens (UK)
- Sywell Fabrications (Britain) - Henry Thurston
- Thrilltime, Inc
- Tivoli Enterprises (UK) - Richard Woolls
- Top Fun (Italy)
- Vekoma (Netherlands)[25]
- Wards (UK)
- White Water West Industries (Canada) [26]
- Wisdom Rides (USA)[27]
- Zierer (Germany)[28]
See also
- Amusement park
- Funfair (U.S. carnival)
- Closed rides and attractions
References
- UK National Fairground Archive ride histories.
- fairground-rides.co.uk database of UK fairground rides.
