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ANATOMY OF A CIRCUS TENT

Melinda's PhD in French literature has never been put to better use than when she had to translate the packing list from French to English when it was time to import the tent from Normandy, France to Boston.  In circus, technical details are of supreme importance -- both for safety and to be able to properly assemble the magical structure that is home to the most beautiful & breathtaking entertainment on earth. Melinda is as proud of this translation - it almost reads as a poem! - than she is of her dissertation on "La Vieille dans la litterature du Moyen Age tardif."

Packing List

Tent n. 67959 manufactured by V.S.O.
(the same company that manufacturs Cirque du Soleil's Big Tops)

 Red and yellow circus tent with red tower [disassembled] 

• 1 roof canvas + straps + 2 covers
• 4 canvas pieces for sidewalls
• 50 sets of straps and ratchets
• 1 length of 12 mm galvanized cable
• 6 bolts 20 mm X 70 mm
• 50 ‘jumbo 79’ karabiners
• 10 tire forts + 10 cables
• 4 galvanized pipes to form the door frame
• 6 canvas pieces for apse entrance with straps + ratchets
• 2 rounded pipes for the entrances
• 4 pipes with plates for the entrances
• 64 10 kg stakes 1500 mm X 35
• 8 stakes for the mast plates
• 6 gussets for the mast and shroud
• 2 base plates for the masts
• 2 half trusses with connecting tips
• 2 lifting hoops for tent roof with 4 lifting triangles
• 40 side poles 3400 mm X 60
• 4 support frame bars 1500 mm X 76
• 2 A frames for lifting the masts (4 elements)
• 1 sledge hammer

Out of these concrete details rises the magic circus ring!