Waygood-Otis Lift Installation

It is with great pleasure we are able to advise the public that the new Auckland Railway Station is equipped throughout with Waygood-Otis Lifts.

After considering all the factors it was decided by the New Zealand Government Engineers and the Architects for the building, to instal a Waygood-Otis Micro Drive Self-Levelling Machine for the passenger lift

This decision was inevitable, in view of the fact that only the highest quality and most improved type of lift machinery was being considered. Unvarying reliability was to be ensured. Safety—automatic and certain was called for—silence of operation was desired—and that meant Waygood-Otis.

Although this lift will work at 300 f.p.m.—an unusually high speed for alternating current machinery—it will unfailingly come to rest level with the floor which it is serving, and this in spite of the varying loads which will be placed in the car in the course of its service. This level landing is maintained at all times without regard to change of load on the platform or stretch of ropes.

A further feature of these lifts is that to ensure against the slamming of the gates, they are all fitted with Waygood-Otis silent two-speed self-closing doors.

The success of the Waygood-Otis Micro Drive Self-Levelling system has been phenomenal, and since its inception a great number of installations have been made in the two largest cities of the Dominion, and even in the smaller cities with lifts operating at slower speeds, but where the advantages of automatic operation and self-levelling were desirable.

Less pretentious, but equally efficient are the other Waygood-Otis lifts installed in the building, which include a large luggage lift, stores lift, and a restaurant lift. In the larger of these lifts the control is by double button from car and landings.