Gondola Cable Car At Queenstown
(New Zealand Press Association)
HAMILTON, April 11.
New Zealand’s first gondola-type cable car will be built at Queenstown, according to Mr J. Durable, manager of the Skyline Chalet
It will be able to take 300 visitors an hour up to the chalet, built on top of Bob’s Peak, 1530 feet above Queenstown. Expected to be in operation by July, it will provide yet another tourist attraction for the town, Mr Dumble said today. Fourteen four-seater gondola cars, made of fibre glass, will travel on a continuous moving cable mounted on rubber-lined pulleys. They will take visitors up a break
cleared in pines growing on the side of Bob’s Peak. Each journey, a vertical rise of 1410 feet, will take just a little longer than four minutes. About 60,000 people have visited the chalet which has a panoramic view up Lake Wakatipu, down the lake to Kingston, of Coronet Peak, the Remarkables, Frankton Arm, and Queenstown itself. They have had to be taken up the steep, spiralling mountain road by minibus or they have walked up.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31343, 13 April 1967, Page 10
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