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Herb Ochs
February 5th, 2011
at 7:19 pm
Jennifer,
This is an Otis car operating panel for “Signal Control” introduced in the mid 1920’s. The car attendant moved the rotary lever to the far-left START position. Once the car started motion, it stopped at the required floor automatically according to pressed car floor buttons or hall floor buttons. The attendant operated the doors and restarted the car each time. Car floors were entered with pushbuttons on a separate panel mounted above your illustrated control panel. The operation of Otis Signal Control is well documented in “Electric Elevators” by F. Hymans, and in “Elevators” by F. A. Annett. Both books were reprinted by “Elevator World” magazine, Mobile, AL.
I never ran a Signal Control car as an attendant, but rode in one as a passenger. I was an attendant on passenger elevators with manual Up/Down car switches where I had to start and stop the car at floor level. Happy further research.
Herb Ochs
ThyssenKrupp Elevator