Afraid of lifts when I was young - this is why!

[thekempo11]

so why do you hate lifts???



[XoBleedingHeartoX]

so is this what u always do on ur days off lol (joke)

[mrmattandmrchay]

@XoBleedingHeartoX hehe, actually I was working nearby and got here especially early to film this. I was hoping that the "TRADES" button on the intercom would be working, but instead I had to hope someone came out and didn't question me when I slipped in :D

[agmemoboardmaker]

i hate lifts too

[MissBesitosDulces]

I HATE LIFTS! Especially those council flat ones!

[DutchElevatorChannel]

You need courage to get into this really bad leveling (or better NOT leveling) elevators! Great video!

[270crazyguy]

yeah this one would intimidate me too! lol

[RapidAssistant]

Old British Transport hotels are a great place to find vintage Otis lifts like this.....was in the Station Hotel in Perth the other week and they had one slap bang identical to this...two speed drive, same style of buttons....only thing was the Elevonic style direction lanterns which had obviously been added at a later stage.

[MrDiemme]

I wish I had your courage ... However, in Italy would have a lot to enjoy here because there are many small and shabby elevators ... one of them is living in the building where my mother-in-law and was built in 1954. To see him go on and scares and get out alive is like doing Bingo! Thanks for letting me read it and responded ... sorry for my English is not good. Ciao dall'Italia!

[mrmattandmrchay]

@MrDiemme Nothing wrong with your English - it's very good.

Cool, looks like you are a lift/elevator fan also! I love old lifts, especially lifts "BEFORE" LED displays were invented!

[MrDiemme]

For someone who is afraid of elevators that I always try new situations. I have seen and appreciated that your video shot in Milan, where you enjoy and stop the elevator is moving! Even I am afraid the elevators since I was young but I'm terribly attracted to them. I like your video where you show lifts abandoned. Hello and keep going.

[mrmattandmrchay]

@MrDiemme Thank you for your kind message. When I receive messages like yours, it gives me more energy to make more!

I'm happy you like the Milan "Emergency Stop" movie!

[sausageroll95]

Oooer 13 floors, superstitious much?

[keithhuddy]

The door at the back of the car reveling the cupboard is what is known as a "coffin lift "this space at the back of the car was provided for removeal of bodies from tower blocks by undertakers and ill people on trollys by ambulance crews where the depth of the car restricted horizontal movement of patients so this is why this extension was provided.

[thomasl1231]

They have ones like these in one of the shopping centres and its carpark around here! Except they don't have windows on the doors and they have had a new panel installed on the side, but all the old classic Otis buttons are still there!

[mrmattandmrchay]

@thomasl1231 I've seen some also. When they modernise lifts, if they don't have the money to refurbish the whole lift car, only the controls get done. Some of the original fittings still remain, sometimes the doors as well.

Matt

[thomasl1231]

@mrmattandmrchay Cool! I'm guessing these ones are from the 1980's then? The shopping center here that has them is dated 1989. I might try to get more videos of them, they are a bit frightening in my opinion!

[MrUNIXman]

I did know someone who said he pulled the lift main doors open while it was traveling

[mrmattandmrchay]

@MrUNIXman Wasn't me was it? I've a few stories of doing this when I was younger! I was a bit lift crazy, i'm a little more sensible now :D

[MrUNIXman]

@mrmattandmrchay it was my real brother that talked about doing this.

[MrUNIXman]

However about forcing doors of a lift open, I did do this in the Science Musem in London in May while the lift was stationary as people on the lift were selecting floor they wanted so it would stop at that floor but will not open the door I thought very strange. Couple of people on the lift got worried by it, So I thought let see it was at a floor and pulled them open and let other people out and later there was sign I saw on another floor saying these floors are not open to public yet.

[ahocknul04]

Is it me or am i living a similar life to you, i'm 14, i film as you know, and you've told me the same thing i was terrified of lifts but it was because of an only fools and horses episode 'time on our hands' Del Boy stopped the lift and lifts somtimes do that i refused to go in them for 6 years

[jaymietreadwell]

The door at the back of the lift on the left is actually a storage compartment, usually used for storing lift mechanic's equipment locally (just like in your Out of Order segments). It's also used (if the people using the lift know this) as extra passenger space (ref. Out of Order segments)

[NESTABROWN9]

Very nice Old Otis elevator! Is look a Bennie elevator from part of that is very smilliar of those really. Wonderful elevator serial that moment.

[djFadeOut122]

gotta love 'em! 

[thyssenelevator95]

When you say that it uses the "Meat Slicer" selector, do you mean the old Otis LRV selectors with the carriage and the plates that spun to actuate switches when the selector dropped out at a floor?

[stevocooldude]

These lifts are very simular to the ones at Bracknell's derelict car park 5!

[mrmattandmrchay]

Almost Identical!

[Cazkumali]

@mrmattandmrchay who are these lifts made by m8

[mrmattandmrchay]

@Cazkumali Classic Otis lifts. The style of the on-off-on from the floor indicator lamps whilst the lift is in motion comes from a classic Otis floor selector in the motor room. I'll post a link of what I mean soon...

[TarzanAndConz]

There is one lift in a block of flats close to me that has such a 'cabinet' as well. There's 2 lifts serving all floors and only one has this. It is about half the height of the cab and it is there to fit larger objects in the lift as there is no seperate freight lift for moving furniture items.

I don't know why the did not just make the cab bigger but i guess something else must be taking the space above the cabinet.

[benobve]

great video

[mas90009]

wow nice ! 9:23 its not on the level rely crazy !