You'to Only to Step on.

Otago Witness, Issue 2626, 13 July 1904, Page 85

You'to Only to Step on.

Moving pavements, sliding on rol'ers, and stepping upon which pavements you are carried along "standing pull." are now in operation at not a few places m many lands. They are specially useful for exhibitions, etc., where numbers of persons, sight-peeing, desire to be eontin..plly passing from one spot to another. There travelling payments" first came from America, whence hails the moving sta'rea«e of which our diagram explains the principle. On the left we see a sectional ie« of the staircase, which eon«i=ts as we may say, of an "endless baud" of ttop 1 -, which, pass-

ing over two chiving wheels or rollers AA, and supported throughout its length on other smaller rolleis — shown in the drawing as small circles — cairies persons who stand upon its steps "upstairs" or down, accoiding to which way the dm ing wheels are caused to turn.

Of course, in all such contrivances accidents, particulaily to infirm or inacii* c passengeis, <ha\e to be guarded against, and to the right we see one variety of "safety" top landing stage. The pa^-engors step off sideways, there being a well-padded rail placed across the htairway, as we see, With stout network beneath it, to prevent anyone from travelling further. In cur diagrams the top of the moving staircase passes through well is, making it quito impossible for anyone to journey to the cxlieme uppermost end and fall o\er.