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Title: Caption it #1949
Post by: meddyg on 30 September, 2018, 08:36:22 pm: (https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1843/29535128427_8c112ab08e_b.jpg)

Schindler's lift obv !
Title: Re: Caption it #1949
Post by: hellymedic on 30 September, 2018, 10:15:48 pm: [Not a caption]

I was a Penniless Student Oaf when the (later Royal) Hallamshire Hospital was being commissioned.

There were innumerable problems with Sch(w)indler's Lifts there, and the situation was lampooned mercilessly by Student Revues.
Title: Re: Caption it #1949
Post by: pdm on 30 September, 2018, 10:59:06 pm: [Also not a caption]

H, I'm sure you'll be ecstatic to know that the Hallamshire Sch(w)indlers lifts are still not up to the task!
Title: Re: Caption it #1949
Post by: meddyg on 01 October, 2018, 08:13:26 am: I was a pre-clinical medical student in Sheffield (ca 1973
where we used to amuse ourselves in the Arts Buliding's
Paternoster lifts ...endless fun with few injuries

(I think we may have been here before - applies to both the thread and the Paternoster lift!)
Title: Re: Caption it #1949
Post by: T42 on 01 October, 2018, 08:24:38 am: First time my parents visited after we moved to Paris my dad pointed to the letters RC (for rez-de-chaussée or ground floor) on a lift button and said "humph, they get in everywhere".
Title: Re: Caption it #1949
Post by: hellymedic on 01 October, 2018, 07:21:28 pm: Quote from: pdm on 30 September, 2018, 10:59:06 pm
[Also not a caption]

H, I'm sure you'll be ecstatic to know that the Hallamshire Sch(w)indlers lifts are still not up to the task!

[Still not a caption]

Basic design flaw. :lift demand >supply. Capacity inadequate for 19 storeys; only keen (or exasperated) staff will use stairs for >5 storeys; patients generally can't use stairs. Having one lift OOS puts a huge strain on the demand for the rest. There's little horizontal movement in a building that shape and almost all vertical movements need the lifts. (Says she who mostly used the stairs 'twixt K and everywhere.)
Title: Re: Caption it #1949
Post by: rogerzilla on 02 October, 2018, 12:43:54 pm: The SS always used the stairs.
Title: Re: Caption it #1949
Post by: Wowbagger on 02 October, 2018, 04:24:02 pm: There was a slight mistake in translation in the lift in our Vienna hotel: "Do not use the elevator in case of fire."