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The ride in the forefront of
the photograph below is "The Bug" but if you look in the top left
corner you will see three of the arms of the Octopus rising up above
the booth of The Bug.
 The National Fairground Archive
web site at the University of Sheffield, says this about the Octopus
Ride: "The Octopus ride was built under licence from Eyerly by
Lusse at Blackpool, where it is said that 12 machines were created for
amusement parks around the end of the 1930s. ... The Lusse machines
were built with long arms, and were quite a big operation and thrill
ride at the time. More were made as the ride proved a popular hit, and
the name Octopus stuck well, since the machine had 8 arms, and a
sweeping plunging movement caused by an ingenious offset spindle and
wire system."....."The Octopus was a popular ride in the UK up until
the start of the 1980s, when thrill rides such as the Orbiter began
pushing up the public's expectations."
Below is an image of a modern
Octopus ride in the town of Haarlem. The image was placed in the
public domain and is available through Wikipedia Commons.
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