The lift that never stops
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You'd think when they came back round the people inside would be upside down or flat on their arrses 
The wooden-tops that fitted the lifts in the debenhams in Doncaster should have thought of this. Two lifts that both serve the bus station on G, 1 and 2 are Debenhams, 3 and 4 are car park. Bloody chaos. Especially when at any point until the lift departs, someone can press the call button and the doors will re-open. You get a lot of people just jumping in the lift regardless of whether its going up or down - they'll ride to the top, then to the bottom to get to the bus station. And they usually have 2 prams etc and take up the entire lift so people in the car parks cannot get in and have to wait a long time to get an empty lift. They should have had one lift going up and one lift going down from Debenhams.
Anyway I digress, I assume the lifts in the video clip must eventually stop and reverse? Or are they on a cycle where they go round and round? That'd be a complex mechanism.
Anyway I digress, I assume the lifts in the video clip must eventually stop and reverse? Or are they on a cycle where they go round and round? That'd be a complex mechanism.
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It's a paternoster lift, I beleive that there is one at Essex University and they used to be fairly common.
My grandparents used to work at teh Lucas factory in Birmingham and I believe there was one there.
My grandparents used to work at teh Lucas factory in Birmingham and I believe there was one there.
They used to have a paternoster lift in the main co-op department store in Bristol 'til the 70s.
I go to Prague/Czech republic quite a lot and you see the odd one there. Poss wouldn't meet modern H&S regs here, but things are less strict in Central Europe.
They come from an age when people were trusted to look after themselves, instead of having overbearing politicians and numpties from the H&S industry to do it for us.
I go to Prague/Czech republic quite a lot and you see the odd one there. Poss wouldn't meet modern H&S regs here, but things are less strict in Central Europe.
They come from an age when people were trusted to look after themselves, instead of having overbearing politicians and numpties from the H&S industry to do it for us.
What happens if someone faints, passes out, epilepic fit or just trips and falls over the access opening?
Are they cut in two?
Would like to throw a dummy in just to see or a plank of wood to mimic someone's leg.
That would make a much more interesting U tube clip.
Might make a good log chopper.
Time to vacate the building I think if it did a lot of damage.
Hope they fitted a stairway!
Are they cut in two?
Would like to throw a dummy in just to see or a plank of wood to mimic someone's leg.
That would make a much more interesting U tube clip.
Might make a good log chopper.
Time to vacate the building I think if it did a lot of damage.
Hope they fitted a stairway!
Some good points norcon, i bet you could even clip your toe nails if they sharpened up the edges
Had one in University of central England (now BCU ) - going know if it is still there.
They had one in the BBC --- but it only went down - so with no doors you could see who was going down on ..........Just seen this clip on youtube of a lift that never stops....with no doors
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what about this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIx4KOt62c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIx4KOt62c
Yes they did. Fairfax House. Possibly the worst designed building in the World but the paternoster lifts were brill. I met the bloke who designed it years ago (Sam Wyatt) It used to make me smile because he was always keen to tell people that he was the architect that designed Fairfax House - and everybody used to say; if that was me I'd keep quiet about it.
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