The Vallentgoed family originates from Edam in the Netherlands. Grandfather Louis started travelling in 1890 with a High Striker. In 1899 he was one of the founders of the Dutch showmansguild 'Ons Belang' (Our Intrest).

In 1896 he had a boatswing build by Takkenberg in Edam with 4 boats. This was such a success that
2 more boats were added. A couple of years later a second boatswing was build.
Both swings were equipped with a pipeorgan,
a Casperine and a Wellerhaus. Everything was transported on wagons that were pulled by horses.

And if they had to go far they used trains.
In 1915 Hendrik bought the boatswing from his father.

The family moved from Edam to Purmerend in 1920. During the winter they took the organ to the icerink to make some money when there were no fairs. Hendrik and his wife had 5 children. When the children got older they helped out on the fair. One son and one daughter left the fair. The other daughter married Adam van der Veen, also a showman. Hendrik's sons Henk and Louis kept travelling the fairs with their father.

Untill 1933 they used horses but then they bought their first motorised vehicle, a GMC from the first world war. They also had a packing-and a livingtrailer. The new organ, a Ruth, was also in a wagon. This organ, called 'De kleine Witte Ruth'(Little White Ruth), is still treasured by the family.

In 1952 Henk and Louis bought their fathers boatswing. In 1959 they bought a 12 seater Chair O plane from Siem Ooms from Venhuizen. In 1973 the boatswing was sold to a playground called Lynneaushof near Lisse. Henk and Louis bought a Spider from Kobus van Dam.

Henk was grieved when his brother passed away and continues to travel the fairs with his brother's son who is also called Louis. In 1971 Louis buys a Paratrooper. Henk stopped travelling but sometimes he helps to pull down or build up.

After the Paratrooper they travel with a Twister. The spider is sold to Laan uit Venhuizen who is still travelling with it up to this day.Then in 1988 the Twister is sold.

Louis starts to travel with a Polyp in 1989. It is the first Polyp with 6 arms, Previously owned by Boesveld who sold it to a amusment park in the UK called Rotunda Amusments. When Louis buys the Polyp from that park a lot of changes are made before he takes it to the Dutch fairs

Louis travels the fairs with his wife Rachel and their sons Louis and Jan. A second Polyp is bought in 1993. Oldest son Louis and his mother go to the fairs with this Polyp and after one year Louis travels on his own. In august of 1997 Louis buys the Polyp from his father and is then an independant showman.

In the winter of 1994 the first Polyp is sold and Louis, Rachel and Jan visits the fairs with a big wheel. This wheel was build by Nauta-Bussink in 1989. They travel in Holland,Belgium and Germany. In 1999 Jan marries Antoinette Wegkamp and in 2000 their son Louis is born. He is the sixth generation of Vallentgoed on the fair.

In the summer of 1988 the Nauta-Bussink Company started to build a Big Wheel ride. The ride was to be named Europarad which is Dutch for 'Wheel of Europe'.
The ride was completed on the 5th of april 1989 with serial number 8.334.9.

Blue and yellow were chosen as the main theme colours and its original owner was Mr.F.Ropers from Apeldoorn.

The first fair at which the wheel operated was held in The Hague on the occasion of Queens Day, the celebration of the Netherlands Queens birthday on the 30th of april.

After two years a canopy was added to the wheel and the original lighting, a big orange sun in the middle with sunbeams going out of it on the spokes,was changed to as it is today.

In the winter of '94/'95 the wheel was sold to v.o.f.(ltd) Vallentgoed, the wheel then traveled extensively throughout the Netherlands and after a year was repainted and upgraded to T.U.V. standards. (Technischer Uberwachungs Verein, meaning Technical Safety Organisation).

After the wheels upgrade it then started to travel internationally attending fairs in Belgium, Germany and the UK. Whilst in the UK a meeting with a UK based international fair provider led to an agreement to take the wheel to the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) in the Middle East and to the Emirate of Dubai for the world famous Dubai Shopping Festival.

Returning to the Netherlands the wheel again travelled again extensively throughout Europe, returning to Dubai the following year and then to the U.A.E. capital Abu Dhabi. In the autumn of the same year after first returning to Europe the wheel went to Hong Kong until early 2002 and then to Singapore.
After 3 fairs in Sangapore the wheel returned to Hong Kong for the winter periode. In the early summer of 2003 the wheel went to Shanghai and spent all summer there. After then the wheel was in Hong Kong for the third time.