Amusement ride

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An amusement ride is any number of devices found at carnivals, fairs/funfairs, or amusement parks meant to appeal to various senses of the rider.

Contents 1 Types 1.1 Amusement Park rides 1.2 Carnival or Funfair/Fair rides 2 Amusement ride manufactures 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Types

[edit] Amusement Park rides

Larger rides, normally only found in amusement parks

• Balloon Race / Samba Balloon
• Condor
• Corkscrew roller coaster.
• Dark rides
• Disk-O
• Drop towers
• Enterprise
• Ferris wheels or Big wheels
• Frisbees
• House of mirrors
• Looping Starship / Space Shuttle
• Megadrop
• Motion platforms
• Observation towers
  • Gyro Towers
• Pirate Ship / Pharaoh's Fury / Sea Ray
• Roller coasters
  • switchbacks
  • Horror train
• Sightseeing trains
• Sky Swat
• Screamin' Swing
• Swing Around / Apollo 2000
• Swing Rides
• Teacups
• Topple Tower
• Top Spin
• Train rides
• Troika / Scorpion
• Tumble Bug
• Water Rides

[edit] Carnival or Funfair/Fair rides

Traditional and transportable rides found at Carnivals/Fairs, many of which may also be found in amusement parks

• 1001 Nacht / Ali Baba / Falling Star / Joker / Rainbow
• Breakdance
• Bumper cars or Dodgems
• Carousels or Merry-go-round
• Cliffhanger / Kite Flyer / Fly Away
• Crazy Wave / Gee Whiz / Moby Dick
• Dive bomber
• Evolution
• Freak Out
• Funhouses
• Fun Slide
• Ghost train
• Gravitron / Starship 2000
• Saturn 6 / Hurricane / Downdraft
• Helter Skelter or Slide
• Jump and smile
• Kamikaze
• Kiddie ride
• KMG Afterburner (Fireball)
• Matterhorn / Flying Bobs
• Music Express / Himalaya / Rock N Roll / Silver Streak
• Orbiter
• Octopus / Monster / Polyp / Spider
• Paratrooper or Umbrella Ride / Force 10
• Power Surge
• Reverse bungee
• Ranger
• Rock-O-Plane
• Rotor
• Round Up / Zero Gravity
• Ring of Fire / Larson Fireball
• Scrambler / Sizzler/ Twist
• Simulator
• Spin Out
• Super star
• Tilt-A-Whirl
• Train rides, "kiddie ride" type
• UFO
• Waltzer
• Wipeout / Trabant
• Zipper

[edit] Amusement ride manufactures

Most new amusement rides are innovations of one of the major amusement ride manufactures, and in fact 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) Bertazzon (Italy/USA) [2] Cadoxton (UK) Chance Rides/Chance Morgan (USA)[3] Church (UK) Dartron Industries (USA)[4] Eli Bridge (USA)[5] Lee Eyerly (USA) Far Fabbri (Italy) - Megadrop Gravity Works, Inc (USA)[6] Great Coasters International (USA)[7] Edwin Hall (UK) Hayes Fabrication (UK) Hindustan Amusement Machines (India) Hopkins Amusement Rides (USA)[8] HUSS Maschinenfabrik (Germany)[9] Hrubetz Intamin AG (Liechtenstein)[10] Ital International (USA) [11] Jacksons (UK) Caspar Klaus (Germany) KMG (Netherlands) - Kermis Machinebouw Gaasendam[12] L & T Systems Amusement Rides (USA)[13] Lang Wheels (UK) Larson International (USA)[14] Lusse Company (UK) Mack Rides (Germany) [15] Maurer Söhne (Germany) [16] Maxwells (UK) Mondial Rides (Netherlands) [17] Moser Rides (Italy)[18]

Norson Power (UK) Premier Rides (USA)[19] Protech Pollards (UK) PWS (UK) Reverchon Industries (France)[20] Rollercoaster Corporation of America (USA) Ronald Bussink Professional Rides (Switzerland)[21] S&S Power Inc (USA)[22] - Arrow Dynamics Safeco (Spain) Sally Corp (USA)[23] Sartori Rides Int'l Group (Italy)[24] - Claudio Sartori SBF Rides (Italy)[25] Anton Schwarzkopf (Germany) Sellner Manufacturing Co (USA)[26] Smart Amusements Co (Australia) [27] Sobema Soli s.r.l. (Italy)[28] Sonacase (UK) [29] - Monty Hammond Soriani Joe and Perrin Stevens (UK) Superides International (UK) [30] Sywell Fabrications (Britain) - Henry Thurston Technical Park (Italy) [31] Thrilltime, Inc Tivoli Enterprises (UK) - Richard Woolls Top Fun (Italy) [32] Traver (US) (bought by Ralph E. Chambers in the 1930s) Vekoma (Netherlands)[33] Wards (UK) White Water West Industries (Canada) [34] Wisdom Rides (USA)[35] Zamperla (Italy)[36] Zierer (Germany)[37]

[edit] See also

• Architectural structure
• Closed rides and attractions
• List of Amusement Parks

[edit] References

• UK National Fairground Archive ride histories.
• fairground-rides.co.uk database of UK fairground rides.

[edit] External links

• A list of amusement ride patents, with links to the U.S. Patent office