The heavy demands made in the operation of lifts in a modem building were indicated in a report on the three passenger lifts in the Power Board building made to the Auckland Electric Power Board. In an observation extending over three weeks, it was found that one lift travelled on some occasions 14 miles a day, its average daily journey being nearly 12 miles. On the average, the three lifts travelled nearly 27 miles a day, one of them making as many as 167 trips an hour. The lowest number of journeys an hour on a average which was recorded was 118. One lift carried as many as 1625 passengers on an average each day, and, on one occasion, the three lifts carried as many as 6200 people in a day.
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Southland Times, Issue 22378, 18 July 1934, Page 4
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