"Kev":
They were the last hydraulic lifts on the system.

(I'd better qualify that - the last 'proper'
hydraulic lifts, as opposed to some modern
electro-hydraulic installations on the DLR).

Mark Brader:
Okay, what's the distinction here?

John Rowland:
There used to be hydraulic mains in London supplying pressurised water
all over the city ...

London Hydraulic Power Company, as it misleadingly says on the entrance
building to the Tower Subway. I didn't know that Underground lifts
were among the machines they powered, though. Thanks.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "*Nature*, Mr. Allnutt, is what we are put in this
| world *to rise above*." -- The African Queen

John Rowland:
There used to be hydraulic mains in London supplying pressurised water
all over the city ...

London Hydraulic Power Company, as it misleadingly says on the entrance
building to the Tower Subway. I didn't know that Underground lifts
were among the machines they powered, though. Thanks.
--

The original City & South London Railway lifts were hydraulic ones, I
don't know if they were supplied from that company.


Roger

On Mon, 10 May 2004 12:56:15 +0000 (UTC),
wrote:



John Rowland:
There used to be hydraulic mains in London supplying pressurised water
all over the city ...

London Hydraulic Power Company, as it misleadingly says on the entrance
building to the Tower Subway. I didn't know that Underground lifts
were among the machines they powered, though. Thanks.
--

The original City & South London Railway lifts were hydraulic ones, I
don't know if they were supplied from that company.


My understanding was that with the technology of 1000 or so years ago,
hydraulic lifts were easier than electric lifts to make safe - to the
extent that they wouldn't plunge down the lift shaft in the event of a
failure

Martin

In article ,
(Martin Rich) wrote:

My understanding was that with the technology of 1000 or so years ago,
hydraulic lifts were easier than electric lifts to make safe - to the
extent that they wouldn't plunge down the lift shaft in the event of a
failure

1000 year old lifts? Wow!

--
Colin Rosenstiel

On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:01 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Martin Rich) wrote:

My understanding was that with the technology of 1000 or so years ago,
hydraulic lifts were easier than electric lifts to make safe - to the
extent that they wouldn't plunge down the lift shaft in the event of a
failure

1000 year old lifts? Wow!

Just realised what I typed...

I meant of course 100 years.

In article ,
(Martin Rich) wrote:

On Thu, 13 May 2004 00:01 +0100 (BST), (Colin
Rosenstiel) wrote:

In article ,
(Martin Rich) wrote:

My understanding was that with the technology of 1000 or so years
ago, hydraulic lifts were easier than electric lifts to make safe -
to the extent that they wouldn't plunge down the lift shaft in the
event of a failure

1000 year old lifts? Wow!

Just realised what I typed...

I meant of course 100 years.

:-)

--
Colin Rosenstiel