UPDATE: A newspaper article from May 20, 1950, published in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, provides more information about the jeep-driving circus chimp named Nero. He passed away later in the year.
![1950-05-20-st-louis-globe-circus-chimp-jeep-drive2-lores](http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2013/01/1950-05-20-st-louis-globe-circus-chimp-jeep-drive2-lores-650x532.jpg)
![1950-05-20-st-louis-globe-circus-chimp-jeep-drive1-lores](http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2013/01/1950-05-20-st-louis-globe-circus-chimp-jeep-drive1-lores.jpg)
======================
Originally Posted January of 2013: This 1950 postcard shows some chimpanzees driving a battery powered jeep. They were part of a Chimpanzee show at the St. Louis zoo started in 1925. Chimps were taught to ride bicycles, tricycles, motorcycles, ponies, a Great Dane, and more. You can learn more about them in the January 8, 1951, issue of Life Magazine.
“VINTAGE POSTCARD – CONDITION: VG. DATE/ERA: 1950s-60s. Standard Size 3.5×5.5.”
View all the information on eBay
![1950-chimpanzee-stlouis-zoo-jeep-train-postcard1](http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2012/12/1950-chimpanzee-stlouis-zoo-jeep-train-postcard1-650x403.jpg)
![1950-chimpanzee-stlouis-zoo-jeep-train-postcard2](http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2012/12/1950-chimpanzee-stlouis-zoo-jeep-train-postcard2-650x405.jpg)
You can view some additional pictures at Jalopy Journal (scroll part way down the page). The quality seems good enough that they may be from Life Magazine, but I tried, but failed to locate their original source. Here is one of the images.
![chimps-jeeps3](http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2012/12/chimps-jeeps3.jpg)
On December 13, 1950, several newspapers announced that Nero had passed away. Here’s an article from the Southern Illinoisan:
![1950-12-13-southern-illinoisan-nero-chimp-dies](http://www.ewillys.com/wp-content/uploads2/2020/08/1950-12-13-southern-illinoisan-nero-chimp-dies.jpg)