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Cyril Bonnett	28/08/2015 21:44:57
250 forum posts 1 photos	Nice article LINK
Hopper	29/08/2015 00:02:33
7881 forum posts 397 photos	Nice stuff indeed, Cyril. Thanks for the link. One of those would make a fine-looking model.
JasonB	29/08/2015 07:30:32
25215 forum posts 3105 photos 1 articles	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
Gas_mantle.	29/08/2015 08:46:51
359 forum posts 269 photos	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 ? :- LINK Peter.
pgk pgk	29/08/2015 09:34:02
2661 forum posts 294 photos	...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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