[modeleng] Re: are ye all trying to tell me something...

FWIW, Leeds University has/had them too. Dunno about any accidents there 
with them though.

Tony Wells.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter J. Cathcart" <peter.cathcart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: [modeleng] Re: are ye all trying to tell me something...


> Barrie
>
> The Paternoster lift you are talking about was in the Claremont Tower at
> Newcastle University.  I was a law student and our lecture rooms were on 
> the
> 9th floor.  I think there were 12 floors in all.  It was a very fast way 
> of
> getting to studies.  We were all told under no circumstances to "go over 
> the
> top" and back down again because it might cause instability as the "cars"
> moved apart as each went over the top.  Needless to say we occasionally
> ignored the advice.
>
> I gather from news I heard afterwards, when I'd left, that the girl 
> student
> was going over the top and the previous concern about instability proved 
> to
> be well founded and she was crushed.
>
> Very sad.
>
> Peter Cathcart
>


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