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2. Aerial lift - Wikipedia

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   An aerial lift, [1] also known as a cable car or ropeway, is a means of cable transport in which cabins, cars, gondolas, or open chairs are hauled above the ground by means of one or more cables. Aerial lift systems are frequently employed in a mountainous territory where roads are relatively difficult to build and use, and have seen extensive ...

3. Leitner Ropeways - Wikipedia

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   In 1970, agricultural machinery production ceased and was replaced by snow groomer engineering. In 1980 a production plant was built. In 1983, the company developed a detachable grip for chairlifts and gondola lifts. In 1985, the first detachable gondola lifts were made in Brunico and Valtournenche, Italy.

4. Tricable gondola lift - Wikipedia

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   A Doppelmayr tricable gondola lift in Sölden, Austria Operation and maintenance of tricable gondola lift Penkenbahn in Mayrhofen, Austria. The tricable gondola lift, also known as the 3S gondola lift, is a cable car system that was developed by the Swiss company Von Roll transport systems in Thun to unite the benefits of a gondola lift with those of a reversible cable car system. '3S' is an ...

5. Gondola lift - Wikipedia

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   The Aerovia cable car system in Guayaquil, Ecuador La télécabine d'Arrondaz in Valfréjus, France Interior of a gondola at Killington Ski Resort, Vermont Classic 1960s 4-seater monocable gondola lift in Emmetten, Switzerland, built by GMD Müller Interior of a gondola lift station, in this case, an intermediate station where gondolas detach ...

6. Cable transport - Wikipedia

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   The tragedy caused the death of 43 people, and four lift officials were jailed for charges regarding the accident. [36] On April 15, 1978, a cable car at Squaw Valley Ski Resort in California came off from one of its cables, dropping 75 feet (23 m) and violently bouncing up. It collided with a cable which sheared through the car.

7. Detachable chairlift - Wikipedia

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   A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of passenger aerial lift, which, like a fixed-grip chairlift, consists of numerous chairs attached to a constantly moving wire rope (called a haul rope) that is strung between two (or more) terminals over intermediate towers. In contrast to the fixed-grip version, the chairs of a ...

8. Category:Aerial lifts - Wikipedia

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   Category: Aerial lifts. 18 languages. ... Cable car disasters (8 P) Chairlifts (2 P) G. Gondola lifts (1 C, 18 P) P. Proposed aerial lifts (3 P) Pages in category ...

9. List of aerial lift manufacturers - Wikipedia

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   Hall Ski-Lift – United States, founded in 1954, [55] merged with Von Roll in 1982 WSO Städeli – Switzerland, manufactured ropeways from 1957, acquired by Garaventa in 1991 [ 67 ] Tebru – Switzerland, acquired by WSO Städeli [ 67 ] [ 68 ]