Lost your nerve??

Actually i dont mind watching the start and finish of a grand prix, but the middle bit (majority) is just mind blowingly boring, sorry

I used to love going full speed on the elevonic lifts about 4 meters a second on top of the car, better then any fair ground ride!!! They use Otis lift equipment in the Tower of Terror in America and Paris, you cant mistake Otis door equipment when you see it!!
full travel in the Hilton Park Lane was only 23 seconds including door operation!!!

The Hilton was over 32 floors, we didnt do a full travel often, but if we heard a knocking noise on full speed before we handed the lift over we had no option but to do it from on top, inside the car the indicatior changed really quickly so you heard the knock but it was in a 5 floor range.

The first lift we modernised at the Hilton had the most modern controller and high spec finish to the lift, all marble and glass, that when the offical hand over to the hotel took place, 15 different Otis employees turned up! Top class engineer me!!

When we first started and pulled a lift out of service we would still be able to run it on full speed without the car front been on, we frightened a few chamber maids who we gave a lift too!!!!

The Shell HQ's in Waterloo London had over 100 units escalators and lifts, i only went in there now and again, but the service engineers still used to get lost after working in there for 15 years!!

The staff need not leave the building for anything, they had their own dentists, doctors, ala carte free staff restaurant, free vending machines, cinema, film studio, multi storey car park, it was unbelieable, they allowed Otis to install and test new equipment i.e Landing Indicators etc.. it was 16 floors, but the units were big fast speed and at times frightening, especially if you were trying to add extra weights to the counterweight!!
The most scared i ever was, was when we put the safety gear on the counterweight at the Hilton, it had its own safety gear as the pit floor was false, there was a car park under the lift shafts, it was a wind backin safety type, but as it was 32 floors we had to pull the gear in on the 17th floor, we had a scaffolder on stand by who would then build a platform out to the counterweight, and i had to then walk across and wind the gear back in, Adrian i promise you i s--t myself, and even the scaffolder was scared!!!

Adrian, i am leaving work at 4pm, i wish you and your family a very happy christmas, i will be back in work next tuesday, but will be sensible!! Have a good time.

Thanks guys - I shall never, never, never, ever go in a lift again!