Steam Powered elevator engines

Steam Powered elevator engines

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28 August 2015 at 21:44 #202349
Cyril Bonnett
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Nice article

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28 August 2015 at 21:44 #21531
Cyril Bonnett
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short article about steam powered lifts (elevators)
29 August 2015 at 00:02 #202364
Hopper
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Nice stuff indeed, Cyril. Thanks for the link. One of those would make a fine-looking model.
29 August 2015 at 07:30 #202376
JasonB
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Posted by Hopper on 29/08/2015 00:02:33:

One of those would make a fine-looking model.

Certainly would

Slightly different but this is a model of a steam powered lift but it uses hydralics rather than cables
29 August 2015 at 08:46 #202387
Gas_mantle.
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A very interesting thread, it's incredible really to think that someone would go to the trouble of designing and building all that elaborate machinery to perform what is a fairly mundane task of saving people from walking up the stairs !

What a pleasure it would be to go to work if your full time job was to operate and maintain that

On a very slightly different note I remember as a child in the 60's that a lot of large department stores had an elaborate system of pressurised pipes to move sealed capsules of money, receipts etc between departments. I wonder if originally they would have been steam powered ?

Anyone else remember these things ? :-

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29 August 2015 at 09:34 #202395
pgk pgk
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…vacuum pipes in shops…shows our age.. as well as those wire pull thingies in drapers from counter to till.

Apparently there was a London to Croydon vacuum railway run by pumping station. The seals on to top the tube slit reportedly being tallow lubed leather. Every morning when the pumping station started up it rained rats over south Croydon…
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