Very Nice 1994 Toshiba Traction Elevator @ Birds Konandai, Konandai, Yokohama, Japan
Filmed on 09.06.2019.
Location: Birds Konandai Shopping Center, Konandai, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Brand: Toshiba
Type: Traction
Year installed: 1994 (Completed in October 1994, turning 25 years old in 2019)
Floors served: 5 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Capacity: 20 persons or 1300 kg
Beautiful 1994 Toshiba Traction Scenic Elevator @ Birds Konandai, Konandai, Yokohama, Japan
Filmed on 09.06.2019.
Location: Birds Konandai Shopping Center, Konandai, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Brand: Toshiba
Type: Traction, Scenic
Year installed: 1994 (Completed in October 1994, turning 25 years old in 2019)
Floors served: 3 (1, 2, 3)
Capacity: 12 persons or 800 kg
Very Nice Old 1983 (mod early 2000s) Toshiba Tr Els @ Birds Konandai, Konandai, Yokohama, Japan
Filmed on 09.06.2019.
Location: Birds Konandai Shopping Center, Konandai, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Brand: Toshiba
Type: Traction
Year installed/modernized: 1983 / Early 2000s (Estimated)
Floors served: 6 (B1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
Capacity: 21 persons or 1400 kg
【横浜】横浜市港南区港南台 / Konandai,Konan,Yokohama【Yokohama】
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AMAZING! Original Old 1977 Toshiba Traction Elevator @ AEON Konandai, Yokohama, Japan
Filmed on 09.06.2019.
Location: AEON Food Style Konandai, Konandai, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Brand: Toshiba
Type: Traction
Year installed: 1977 (Opened on 22.October, 1977)
Floors served: 6 (B, 1, 2, 3, 4, R)
Capacity: 11 persons or 750 kg
Note: This elevator is still completely original since the shopping center opened back in 1977 (as of 2019)!
Trail: Konandai - Asaine Kiridoshi pass - Kamakura - Ofuna
Full blog post here:
二代目ぐるめ亭 | BIRDS 港南台バーズ - 12/28/2017
二代目ぐるめ亭 | BIRDS 港南台バーズ
BIRDS 港南台バーズ
港南台バーズのエレベーター(1F~3F)
港南台バーズのエレベーターです。
こちらはバスロータリー側口付近にあります。更新されていますが、更新前は恐らくエレメイトと思われます。キャンセルしても「もう一度行き先階ボタンを押してください」のアナウンスが流れません
データ
メーカー:東芝
構造:ロープ式
モデル;エルフレッシュ・パック
用途:乗用
定員:12名
積載:800Kg
設置数:1
停止階:1,2,3
車椅子操作盤:なし
アナウンス:なし
チャイム・ベル:あり
ボタン確認音:なし
STEP (?) Call Button + Crazy Capacity! | Old OTIS (mod.) @ 120 The Terrace, Wellington CBD
Let’s talk about the capacity denoted in these elevators. Firstly, each person would have to be approximately 43.3 kg for the capacity to work (which is like 21 primary school kids!) Secondly, you could not possibly fit 21 people in the lift if you tried! I think they meant 13 persons / 910 kg. (Also, each car can probably only fit 10/11 people anyway; there is NO WAY the capacity would be put up 12 PEOPLE HIGHER to prevent overloads, especially not if the bloody kilograms are less than 4 digits.)
Anyways, this is a fairly reasonable mod. The short LOP panel looks like the original indicator was digital. For some reason the inside buttons are Dewhurst but the call button looks like Shanghai STEP — I was expecting the inside buttons to be STEP as well! This looks like a fairly recent mod as the indicators are the exact same as the Lower Hutt building in yesterday’s video.
Video 11/52 from the Term 2 school holidays (06/7/19 – 21/7/19)
Manufacturer: OTIS (mod.)
Model: Generic
Fixtures: Dewhurst (Shanghai STEP (?) call button)
Type: Traction
No. of elevators in set: 2
Floors served: ★G, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Capacity: 21 persons⁉️/ 910 kg
Film date: 09/7/2019
Elevator rating: 8.5/10
DT rating: 0/10
Total: 8.5/10
港南台で川渡ったよ。異常気象は確実に迫ってきてます。
Another Mod Completed :( | James Cook Hotel | 70's OTIs (Mod. Otis 2018)
Sadly this lift now locks off all floors above 17.
Westinghouse Selectomatic Mark IV Traction Elevators @ Medico-Dento Building, San Francisco CA
Schiddy mod!
3 In 1! OTIS Traction Lifts/Elevators (Mod. ThyssenKrupp) @ 99 Queen Street, Auckland, NZ
3 In 1! These are the OTIS Traction Lifts/Elevators (Mod. ThyssenKrupp) at 99 Queen Street in Auckland, New Zealand. It seems as if these lifts have been modernised twice - First with KONE M-Series and then by ThyssenKrupp. These buttons remind me of OTIS buttons but I don't think they are - Do you know what these buttons are? I think the logic is original due to the fact these lifts still do pre-doors.
Video 22 of 54 from Auckland (04-10-18).
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Lift Information:
Year: 1960's (Mod. 1980's & 2000's)
Manufacturer: OTIS (Mod. KONE & ThyssenKrupp)
Floors Served: 12 (G,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11)
Type: Traction
Capacity: 13 persons or 900kg
Fixtures: ?
Location: 99 Queen Street, Auckland, New Zealand
Date of filming: 04/10/18
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Sneaking up to the higher floors and hitching a ride up with people! (James Cook Hotel)
I was hoping to get up to the Penthouse (I saw one of the elevators do that off-camera), but 21 & 20 are not bad itself. You used to be able to go up as far as 23 in these elevators. Now you can only go up as far as 17. And the only ways to go up further is either for the elevator to auto-recall, or to hitch a ride up with people/wait for someone on the upper floors to call the elevator.
3x Very Nice Old 1967 Mitsubishi Elepet (mod 2002) Tr. Es@Odakyu Dep Store, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Filmed in January 2016. Very nice, but busy elevators.
In this department store, there are 11 passenger elevators in the main building, Mitsubishi Elepet from 1967, modernized in 2002 (except three were modernized in 1992-93, video by another user: ; I should have filmed them). There is also the Odakyu Department store Halco Building, but I didn't go there that time.
Here's a video of the bigger elevator group (5 elevators):
Location: Odakyu Department Store Main Building, Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Brand: Mitsubishi
Type: Mitsubishi Elepet (Before the modernization)
Year installed/modernized: 1967 (Completed in November 1967) / 2002
Floors served: 11 (B2, B1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, R)
Serial: Unknown
Capacity: 16 persons or 1050 kg
Old → New | 60’s OTIS (mod. OTIS) @ James Cook Hotel, Wellington (Car Park)
A pretty average mod if you ask me — I’m personally a fan of the older OTIS buttons and analogue indicator, but after the mod, the elevator was a lot smoother (and now there’s a roaring whoosh of air coming from the shaft). At the beginning we see an Express modded by Schindler (twice!) that served the James Cook Mini Tower, but ALL of its floors were locked off today (I tested). One of the elevators was under “earthquake control” lol — makes me suggest that the right lift’s mod was completed fairly recently.
Manufacturer: OTIS (mod. OTIS)
Model: Generic
Fixtures: Dewhurst
Type: Traction
Floors served: G, AB, CD, EF, ★H, IJ, KL, MN, OP
Capacity: 15 persons / 1134 kg
Film date: 21/1/2019
Elevator rating: 9/10
DT rating: 0/10
Total: 9/10
[R1] They’ve Fixed The Glitch! | Lift/Elevator Update @ James Cook Hotel, Wellington (Low Rise)
The glitchy indicator has finally been fixed! YAY!!
Manufacturer: OTIS (mod. OTIS, twice)
Model: Generic-style
Fixtures: Dewhurst
Type: Traction
No. of elevators in set: 2
Floors served: ★L, 12*, 14*, 15*, 16, 17
Capacity: 15 persons / 1125 kg
Film date: 19/5/2019
* = Locked off, can only be accessed via keycard