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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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.