THE "GIANT'S WHEEL"
Tourists who have fecentiy visited the Prater (the large entertainmcnt park in Vienna) have noticed that the "Giantjs 'Wheel', has been decorated with flags. while ovfer the entrance plat- . form is a hhge Bign, "40^" made of * leaves and pine. | This interesting attraction of the ' Prater, the cohstruction of the British Naval Lieiifenaht. Bdssett, has just celebrated its fortietli anniversary. The older generalipn probat'ly still remembers similar constructiOrtH which stood in Kafl's Court iu Lotidojt und in Blackpool, bul tlicse vurion.- \\liouls in Bdgland hnw «'*•• -uu ' c- 'v in
Vienna does one remain -standing — a symbol of the old happy days of the city. The wheel was erected in the months of June and July, 1897, and the steel of the wheel, weighing 28 tons, camo jfrom England. On tho occasion of the sixtieth jubilee of tlie® reign of Queen Victoria, that is, on June '21, 1897, the management 'of the amuscmont park in which the wheel was then erected. arranged a great celebration^ on which occasion the last scrow was drivcn intc t.lic giant wlieel. On July 3, 1897, the. wlieel was hand l^.i f«r li the aencr.il uni'l'i*
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 15
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193THE "GIANT'S WHEEL" Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 15
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