On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:51:39 -0700 (PDT), Paul Oter
wrote:

On Mar 21, 5:16 pm, MarkVarley - MVP
wrote:
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:02:52 -0000, "John Rowland"
wrote this gibberish:

Colin McKenzie wrote:

Give me a paternoster any day.

Are there any left in London?

AFAIK the one in Northwick Park is still the a sign forbids the public
from using it, but that didn't stop me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paterno...ed_Kingdomsays there's also
one in Viscount House, a private BA building at Heathrow.

what happens if you don't get off at the top (or indeed, bottom)
floor?


You find yourself moving sideways for a few moments and then you start
going down again, using the other shaft.


The one in the GEC Marconi building at Borehamwood had notices at the
top and bottom (on the inside of the liftshaft, of course, so that
passengers in the Paternoster could see them) along the lines of
'last floor - further travel is not dangerous'.

Brief instructions - less than a page of typed A4 - for using the
Paternoster were provided to staff as part of their induction., which
is perhaps why it would be considered acceptable for staff to use
them, but not for the public, My recollection is that to get off a
descending Paternoster car you were supposed to put your foot out, to
meet the floor as the car drew level. To get off an ascending one,
the technique was to step up before you arrived at the floor.

Martin