Paging Paul Corfield (again)

Works for Simes, anyway...

 

Well, in that case: no, I certainly don't remember them.

Can you two Methuselahs actually remember them being used?

 

I can, sonny, in Warden's in Newtownards, back in the last century.

 

Yes. I remember my Mum taking me to see one when I were a nipper. God
knows where it was, though.

This would have been, er, um, early 1960s, I suppose.

 

I wonder if a spiral escalator is possible? I wonder if it would be useful?
The fastest escalator I ever used was in Moscow I suspect 50% to 100% faster
than the LTR jobs and some of them are amazingly long. And very dimly lit.

 

are you calling me stout?

 

The Older Gentleman says...

I'm sure they had one in C K Tang[1] in Singapore City when I was a
child.

[1] Huge department store with a pagoda like frontage iirc.

 

darsy says...

You're more like watered down Guinness

 

Of course they are - Mitsubishi make 'em.

http://www.mitsubishi-elevator.com/design/spiral/spiral.htm

One was tried in Holloway Road tube station in 1906, but didn't work very
well. See at the bottom of this page:

http://www.starfury.demon.co.uk/uground/hiddenbits.html

That would have been in the dark days of Communism?

 

You, platypus, TOG... blimey... shouldn't you all have "nearly as old as
Auvache" numbers or something?

 

" "

Obligatory death threat no 6 (with ellipses).

 

Christ, that might even be it. We stopped at Singapore on the way back
from Vietnam, and went to Tang's where I blew all my money on a
sooper-dooper Corgi toy (Priestman Cub Shovel sort of mini-JCB thing,
IIRC).

That would have been 1964.

 

A pleasure. I'm surprised it's your first though.

 

Champ says...

Amongst whom?

 

Yep - those were the days - and it wasn't even darsy. It was a bit
worrying at the time as I didn't even use my real name in those days,
and there wasn't a www for him to find me on the web.

I still believe he was a member of a gang that don't like the English
much.

I think the correct reply is #two lovely black eyes#.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/12/16/worlds_fastest_lift/