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(Offramp) wrote:

It is odd that I associate paternosters with hospitals, probably
because I saw them in an episode of Columbo once. Yet their biggest
flaw is that they are unsuitable for people in wheelchairs. That's
why they ain't makin em any more.

Are there any Archimedes screw-type lifts left?

The Birmingham Dental hospital paternoster wasn't available to patients.
My brother was a student there.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

Offramp wrote:
It is odd that I associate paternosters with hospitals, probably
because I saw them in an episode of Columbo once. Yet their biggest
flaw is that they are unsuitable for people in wheelchairs. That's why
they ain't makin em any more.

Are there any Archimedes screw-type lifts left?

What, for lifting people?

On Mar 23, 6:00 am, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Offramp wrote:
It is odd that I associate paternosters with hospitals, probably
because I saw them in an episode of Columbo once. Yet their biggest
flaw is that they are unsuitable for people in wheelchairs. That's why
they ain't makin em any more.

Are there any Archimedes screw-type lifts left?

What, for lifting people?

Yeah... I thought I saw an old Edwardian concept plan of an Archimedes
screw raising people. I don't see why it wouldn't work; and it would
look quite futuristic.

On Mar 23, 6:00 am, "John Rowland"
wrote:
Offramp wrote:
It is odd that I associate paternosters with hospitals, probably
because I saw them in an episode of Columbo once. Yet their biggest
flaw is that they are unsuitable for people in wheelchairs. That's why
they ain't makin em any more.

Are there any Archimedes screw-type lifts left?

What, for lifting people?

It is discussed he http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Archi...ew_20Escalator
but it is really - literally - boring.

In message
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Offramp writes

I thought I saw an old Edwardian concept plan of an Archimedes screw
raising people.

Possibly the spiral "escalator" installed at Holloway Road? I don't
think it was ever used in public service, but a few remains of it are
(or were) in the London Transport Museum.
--
Paul Terry

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