09-10-2016, 03:38 PM
BR60103 Wrote:My grandfather was a manager at the National Grocers building in Niagara Falls. I was taken inside once and he took me up in the elevator. It seemed to work by his pulling on a loop of rope. I didn't get to play with it!
On some of the ones I have seen, the loop of rope actually actuates a mechanism that closes both the upper and lower door simultaneously. This is easier on the operator.
My most fun was riding a famous continuous elevator in a headquarters building in Germany which had NO doors at all and never stopped moving! - it featured in a spy film!