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Everything is moving, everything is rolling
8 Issue One 2014 Title Everything is moving, everything is rolling Photo:HamburgerDOM/HenningAngerer There is a smell of roasted almonds in the air, audible signals and shrieking passengers set the tone: welcome to the Hamburg Dom funfair! The many and colourful fairground rides are often truly colossal – but they have got to be highly mobile nevertheless. Semitrailers, in some cases specially constructed, move them from one fairground to the next. Standard semitrailers won’t get you very far,” says Max Eber- hard, a seventh generation fairground operator. In this state- ment, he is referring to the fact that conditions on fairgrounds and at festivals are usually rather cramped. But that is not all: “Some- times you find lovely smooth asphalt for setting up and dismantling the attraction, but on other occasions you’re ankle-deep in mud be- cause it’s rained for three weeks without a break.” That means he needs steering axles. Special ground and special semitrailers with three axles for getting round any corner are the favourite talking point for this entrepreneur. Most of the special running gears that Eberhard uses are from BPW. The 39 year old has just returned from Sochi. There, at the venue of the recent Winter Olympics, the native of Hamburg and his installation company RCS GmbH has just set up the Sochi Park. “It’s somewhat larger than the funfair in Hamburg,” He explains in this case, he and his team were not involved in trans- porting the fairground rides – which is rather an exception because as the managing director of RCS GmbH based in Hamburg, Max Eberhard is a specialist in transporting and setting up rollercoast- ers and other fairground attractions. With the Mouse to Hyde Park in London Take his “Wild Mouse XXL” for example, which Max Eber- hard describes as a really large rollercoaster. There are only