It didn't long though for Tuffi to get increasingly uncomfortable.
Along with a bunch of journalists and Franz Althoff's son Harry, they squeezed Tuffi in the cabin and actually took off. The owner, Franz Althoff, had been a circus man all his life an he came up with a rather spectacular idea to get some publicity: he took the circuses elephant lady Tuffi for a ride on the Schwebebahn. There's actually a (maybe not so) funny story about the Schwebebahn: Back in 1950 a little circus named 'Zirkus Althoff' pitched up its tent in Wuppertal.
