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The first pictures below show some of the children's model fairground rides which use a rotating movement.

This Big Wheel has a pay kiosk at the back!

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This was a giant Big Wheel, the rotating movement was very smooth.

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The weight of the plasticine riders made the seats fly out when you spun this ride.

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This model had a Big Wheel at the front for big kids and a Little Wheel at the back for little kids!

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The following models all use a pulley mechanism to produce a rotating movement.

Can you see how they work?

You turned the pulley on the right to make the Love Boat rotate.

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This was a simple ride but the cotton reel pulley mechanism worked really smoothly.

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The Terror Spinner was operated by holding the dowel on the right, underneath the corrugated cardboard

and spinning it. This then rotated the pulley which spun the ride column, flinging the seats out to the sides.

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The carousel rotated by turning the wooden pulley wheel. The carousel was also attached

to an 'arm' which pivoted out from the triangular base, making it a very scary ride!

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This was a giant ride! The top wheel was rotated by turning the handle at the top (see the right hand picture).

As the top dowel rotated, it turned the pulley which was connected to the bottom dowel

and this made the smaller wheel rotate as well.

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