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Have a reference for the article?
The tandem elephant hitch is Ringling Bros., sometime 1903-1909.
Anonymous,
I am sorry I didn't post the reference. I should have, and that is my error. I have it(the reference), but can't seem to find it now.
Speaking of "technically" a tandem hitch consists of two animals, one in front of the other(originally developed by the English for fox hunting, to save a team from tiring). I don't think there is a proper term for a hitch of three singles, but it is not a tandem. I don't see three being of use for anything but what we see here.
Wade
Old Milwaukee Days literature refered to the three-in-line as a randem [or random?]. A man with some horse knowledge apparently coined the term, which others disparaged, or learned something that's not generally known.
Webster's suggests that tandem could be applied satisfactorily to three-in-line, but I appreciate what you're saying about there being no formally instituted term out of the horse world.
I wonder what James Raymond, Sands, Nathans & Co., the Mabie Bros., Barnum & London and the Ringlings termed these three or more, in-line, elephant hitches?
Maybe Buckles heard something?
The article is from "World Today," Vol. 15, July 1908, pages 905-912, available in Google Books. Photos were credited to the noted H. A. Atwell, who started out about that time doing work for the Ringlings by printing existing negatives made by other photographers. They liked his work and the rest is history.
Anonymous,
Interesting. I have never heard the term "random" used. I am wondering, given the gentleman's knowledge of horse hitches you reference, if he was actually referring to any animal other then horses in the hitch as a "random" hitch. Possibly, like many terms used in the circus, it is usually made up and valid only in that isolated circumstance?
Buckles? I should think Col. John Milton Herriot would be our go to guy in regards to "random/tandem/unicorn" hitches.:)
BTW, why do you insist on being anonymous?
Wade
random horse hitch
http://www.cs.uic.edu/~clitberg/cds/hitch.htm
Rick,
Thank you for that information. After hearing the term "random" and thinking it would be a hard hitch to drive if it indeed was a term used for horse's, you link confirmed for me that yes indeed, it is a difficult hitch.
How is Curator Numbnut's doing. Have you heard from him? Tell him I have 5 peon's and an indian rounded up so I am going to head out on the Chupacabra Expedition next week. If the beast's give me any trouble, it won't be a Frank Buck "Bring Them Back Alive" deal. I'll just whack them and send him the head and hide's. Tell him to have jar's and formaldehyde ready, just in case. Ake Ake Undelay.
Wade
The Curator is still busy pillaging town after town.
Formaldehyde and large jars await your shipment.
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