Big Wheel for Leeds

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 1:17 am

liits wrote: Cardiarms wrote: What are all those bollards on the right for? It looks like they're protecting a couple of very spindley saplings. I seem to recall they protected cycle parking areas from delivery vehicles

BIG N · Post by **BIG N** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 1:25 am

book wrote: Will the wheel be self financing or is it a cost to us? Apparently its a private venture so self financing, however, I hope the council are leasing the land to the company installing and operating it otherwise it would be interesting to try and calculate just how much revenue will be lost from all the car parking spaces given up for this project - and in a city with far too little parking space as it is.

Brunel · Post by **Brunel** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 1:38 am

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Si · Post by Si » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 9:58 am

Leodian wrote: I remember the "sucky up cash tube things" in other stores. Great fun to see them in use. I work in a supermarket (built only four years ago) and we still use the "sucky-up things" to send money from the tills to the cash office. They do occasionally get stuck. The other day, a member of staff opened the little door, and it sucked in several carrier bags which were lying nearby!

simong · Post by **simong** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 11:07 am

Si wrote: Leodian wrote: I remember the "sucky up cash tube things" in other stores. Great fun to see them in use. I work in a supermarket (built only four years ago) and we still use the "sucky-up things" to send money from the tills to the cash office. They do occasionally get stuck. The other day, a member of staff opened the little door, and it sucked in several carrier bags which were lying nearby! LGI, or certainly the Children's Hospital, has a vacuum tube system for sending samples around, which makes sense if you think about it.

Post by **cnosni** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 11:21 am

Jogon wrote: There was a music shop on Queen Vic St.LeoHow'dya mean Cashdisia for old men?I recall being taken in there for (non stylish) clothes as a nipper and watching the sucky up cash tube things. oh yes,the sucky up cash tubes,used to pass an hour as a kid watching them.

Derculees · Post by **Derculees** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 12:27 pm

The staff seemed to treat them like Ronnie Barkers till.

liits · Post by **liits** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 1:28 pm

Lamson Pneumatic Tubes.A link to their history here....http://www.ids.u-net.com/cash/lamsons.htmActually, the whole website is brilliant. So brilliant in fact that I've just realised that I've not done any work this morning!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 4:07 pm

Being a coward, and having seen the way the structure of the wheel is on a sloping car park, I shan't be venturing up aloft !! I realise of course that the engineers know what they're doing, but I would have thought that they'd have insisted on a completely level site for stability.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 12 Feb, 2013 5:52 pm

BLAKEY wrote: Being a coward, and having seen the way the structure of the wheel is on a sloping car park, I shan't be venturing up aloft !! I realise of course that the engineers know what they're doing, but I would have thought that they'd have insisted on a completely level site for stability. Ok Ok, Blakey, if you want one of us to come up with you, I'll volunteer