Show USE FOR INCLINED ELEVATORS english port has four labor savers in on the latest application of the inclined elevator more commonly known as the moving stairway is found in a freight elevator for carrying trunks mall bags and boxes between steam era and wharves this elevator which is practically a gangplank and can be shied about contains within itself the entire apparatus including the electric motor its floor instead of being composed of planks Is a movable platform there are only four such elevators now in use in the world and these are all at dover england steamship men at this port are considering its use here another use of the inclined elevator is in stores from basement to side walk on it men with hand trucks and with rolling boxes or baskets are carried as well as merchandise another novel use for the inclined elevator has been found in england at seaside resorts on its southern coast here in many places the beach run from high bluffs from which visitors must descend by stairs to reach the shore at a number of these place inclined elevators have been installed new york sun |