 In 1927 Butlin leased a piece of land from the Earl of Scarbrough by the seaside town of Skegness, where he set up an amusement park with hoopla stalls, a tower slide, a haunted house ride and, in 1928, a miniature railway and Dodgem cars — these were the first bumper cars in Britain, as Butlin had an exclusive license to import them.
