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The attendant is operating the elevator through the opening with a continuous-pressure type device...
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This particular elevator does not have an operating device on the car...
You can see the "NO RIDERS" sign attached to the bow-iron.
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This sign reads - "NO RIDERS EXCEPT WHEN LOADING AND UNLOADING"...
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The freight handlers are utilizing the truck zoning feature to make the loading/unloading process easier...
This is a rather large sidewalk elevator...it has 3 bow-irons.
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I'm not sure how this works but it is called a "cellar-lift"...
It's a cool looking picture though...thanks Herbie!
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Basement bucket elevator made by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
This particular one was used to remove coal ash from a building's boiler room.
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San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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Moving in or moving out...Union Square, San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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These are the screens that are permitted to cover the sidewalk opening
when the car is at the lower landing. You can see a glimpse of them in Image 8.
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Trash duty in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
The sidewalk metal cover is on top of the car and the
operating device is located just below the left building pillar.
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Speaking of trash duty...this sidewalk elevator with a winding-drum machine was
put out of service because the handle of this trash bin caught a lip in the hoistway.
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A close-up of the offending handle...
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A close-up of the offending trash bin...
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The trash bin from below...notice the gate.
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One of the drums with slack ropes...
I wonder if that is the slack rope switch beneath the drum shaft?
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The other drum...
looks like the machine is on the other side of the wall.
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Another view of the gate damage...notice something about the gate switch?
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It appears that the gate switch has been "defeated" with a piece of cardboard!
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You can see the gate has been displaced from its bottom guide track...
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Oakland, California, U.S.A.
The car didn't quite make it to the sidewalk...I hope they didn't get trapped!
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Oakland, California, U.S.A.
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It appears as if this car comes up through the lobby floor - Palghar, India
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A restaurant in Paris, France...
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Prisoner elevator - Multnomah County Courthouse Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
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A continuous-pressure operating device connected by a flexible cord...
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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Another view...
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
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...more trash duty!
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Resting in the bowels of the building...
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Waiting for some work...
(Nice bra for $14.90!)
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This elevator has a car operating panel and freight handlers may ride in it...
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