To ask what the lift is called?

[Downunderduchess]

Putting this here, because I don’t know what subject it should come under. I was fascinated with a recent thread where several people mentioned a particular type of lift. I had never heard of it before, definitely don’t think we have them in Australia. The lift goes around a track & you jump out at your floor. What is it called please?? I want to tell someone about it & would like to know it’s correct name. Thanks!

I've been in the one in the GeneticsDept in Glasgow but that building was demolished. The lift did feature in an episode of Taggart though. Completely forgot there was one in the Biocemistry Dept in Oxford, they had a normal lift as well though. And to complete my list of paternosters I worked for ICI who had one in their old Agrichemical Headquarters in Billingham House. That is also demolished.

I remember using Sheffield paternoster
I seem to remember someone dying in it in about 70s or 80s

The death was at Newcastle, not Sheffield - 1975

This is beyond scary. I've seen this in my dreams/nightmares but never heard about it in real life!

“Attention! Please do not overload the paternoster!”

You'd really freak people out if you filled each cubicle with clowns .

@marashino as students when we were bored we used to create dramatic tableus in ours and take a trip all the way round for the amusement of anyone who happened to be in the lift lobbies. we'd slightly change the pose each 'lap' to tell a short story. For some reason these often incorporated fight scenes but obviously in freeze frames...

They had one in one of the University of Birmingham departments in the early 1990’s. I cant remember which dept but would have been a medical or science dept, probably med school.

@soupforbrains great idea.