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Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 22.44
by nidave
Tumble Tower wrote:nidave wrote:I had to laugh when I saw the name of the lifts in our local multi story - Schindlers Lifts. (its a proper company
http://www.schindlerlifts.co.uk/ .)
Silly but I thought it was funny.
Schindler actually, no S on the end.
What's so funny about Schindler lifts and escalators, compared to Thyssen-Krupp, Otis, Kone etc?
You have completely missed the point. Has the world passed you by?
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 22.45
by Chie
Tumble Tower wrote:What's so funny about Schindler lifts and escalators, compared to Thyssen-Krupp, Otis, Kone etc?
Schindler's List... get it? :roll:
Maybe you could Google for a lift appreciation forum, or something? Because I don't think many of us give a toss, to be quite honest with you.
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 22.45
by Sput
nidave wrote:Tumble Tower wrote:nidave wrote:I had to laugh when I saw the name of the lifts in our local multi story - Schindlers Lifts. (its a proper company
http://www.schindlerlifts.co.uk/ .)
Silly but I thought it was funny.
Schindler actually, no S on the end.
What's so funny about Schindler lifts and escalators, compared to Thyssen-Krupp, Otis, Kone etc?
You have completely missed the point. Has the world passed you by?
The world passed him by while he was getting it to take pictures of him.
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 22.51
by Nini
Nini wrote:Tumble Tower wrote:What's so funny about Schindler lifts and escalators, compared to Thyssen-Krupp, Otis, Kone etc?
I bet you get called dense quite a bit.
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 22.51
by nidave
Sput wrote:
The world passed him by while he was getting it to take pictures of him.
Was his camera stolen?
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 22.54
by Jovis
Why are you ignoring everyone Tumble Tower? Maybe if I put it in big writing you won't miss it? Answer Nini, she's talking sense.
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 23.09
by cdd
Well I shall impart the only five facts I know about lifts.
1. On about 10% of lifts you can cancel selected floor presses by pressing the lit call button twice in quick succession
2. On lifts that have restricted floors but do allow floor cancelling you can reach the restricted levels by targeting a floor beyond that level and then cancelling it, the lift stops at the next floor it reaches after pressing that button and opens its doors.
3. You can escape from lifts by climbing out of the top.
4. The alarm buttons in lift are not wired up to anything.
5. I am terrified of lifts and refuse to go into lifts on very spurious grounds (like the colour of the paintwork inside the lift). This makes me VERY unpopular with hotel management who have lengthy discussions with me about whether they have to let me use stairs. I claim they do, they claim they only have to let you use them in the event of fire. The real reason they don't want you to use their stairs is because they are always filthy.
Actually I know more facts about lifts.
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 23.14
by Alexia
The public lift indicators in my hotel have S for Staff Level, and 5 for Floor 5. Needless to say they both look the same on the digital display above the lift doors, where it appears to go from 6 to 5 to HC (health club) to 5 again (really S) then to the basement, leading to some confusion. (The hotel is split into two parts - floors G-4 are below the basement)
The staff lifts however show ST for staff. Both sets are OTIS.
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Sat 30 Aug, 2008 23.43
by Nini
cdd wrote:Well I shall impart the only five facts I know about lifts.
Liar, those "facts" must be wrong.
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Mon 01 Sep, 2008 00.14
by wells
Maybe you should post some pictures of yourself in a lift, Tumble?
Re: The Thyssen-Krupp Group Of Companies
Posted: Mon 01 Sep, 2008 00.30
by Jovis
I just had an awful image in my head of being stuck in a lift with Tumble Tower.