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Unique Lifts on Display in London
This lift was one of several installed in the Selfridges department store (considered the most glamorous department store in London by the 1920s) in 1928. Owner Gordon Selfridge had the...
A Short Ride
According to Liftinstituut, the More’s department store in Yokohama, Japan, is home to the shortest escalator in the world. Its miniscule rise of 83 cm enables passengers to more easily...
Stylish Elevators Attract Stylish Crowd
On December 3, 2014, Simple Steps’ interior-design showroom in Miami during the international art fair Art Basel was the backdrop for Milan’s IGV Group’s debut of its DomusLift® home elevators...
Views of the Macquarie Bank Headquarters
These photos should help flesh out a view of what Schindler Australia Pty. Ltd. Customer & Brand RelationshipManager Nima Bahadori called “an extravagant Neoclassical style” in the feature on this...
Creating an Updated and Improved 2015 Safety Handbook
Members of the National Elevator Industry, Inc. (NEII®) Safety Committee met at the Elevator World, Inc. offices in Mobile, Alabama, over several days in October to begin revisions of the...
Zen and the Art of Elevator Maintenance
In the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, a discussion unfolds between motor-cycle enthusiasts regarding a set of assembly instructions that start by stating,...
Enthroned Above
This Guadalajara, Mexico, penthouse bathroom sports no illusion – it actually sits atop a 15-story elevator shaft. The elevator for the hoistway was never installed, so architects Jorge Luis and...
Empire State: An Inside View
Another excellent submission to ELEVATOR WORLD’s 2014 Photo Contest by David W. Fried of Van Deusen & Associates, the photo here was taken in the hoistway of the iconic Empire...
Unsolved Markings Mystery
This is the cylinder interior of the 1902 horizontal hydraulic elevator built by Warner Elevator Manufacturing Co. for the Golden Rule Co. Building in Belington, West Virginia (p. 40). The...
The New Life of Guide Rails
These well-timed photos from our 2014 Annual Photo Contest (winners in ELEVATOR WORLD, August 2014) were submitted by Russell Walker of Atwell International in Worcester, U.K. The photo at left,...
