This is a vintage 1900s Waygood Winding Drum lift which has been modernised by Express in the 1950s/60s! Considering that the mechanical aspects of this lift are a mixture of 120 and 70 year old parts, I think this lift is doing very well! The only recent modification to this lift is the controller being replaced. This would usually be quite a big deal, but in this case it isn’t! The replacement controller is also relay based, and therefore runs the lift just the same as it would have previously. It’s very interesting how the old cabinet is still there. In fact, the new cabinet has actually been bolted to the front of the old one! Quite a strange thing to do if you ask me. But it definitely beats scrapping it! You can tell that the Express modernisation is either from the 1950s or early 60s, (and not any later) due to the fact that the relays are mounted in the vertical position. In the mid 60s, Express updated their cabinet design to have the relays mounted horizontally instead to help with maintenance. The era of installation is also indicated by the colour of the cabinet being ‘Battleship Grey’, which was common for Express in the 50s. (Later colours used were others such as dark green in the 70s, turquoise in the 80s and dark blue in the 90s.). If anyone knows the actual reason behind these different colour changes, I’d be very interested to hear! ⛔️⚠️ It's important to mention the many dangers which are present in lift motor rooms. They are not environments for the inexperienced, and one mistake could be the last thing you do. There are exposed terminals with voltages of up to 415 volts. If you touch them, they WILL kill you. Please do not put yourself into this dangerous environment without proper authorisation. ⛔️⚠️ Before this lift was modernised by Express, I believe that it originally would have resembled this lift shown here: ua-cam.com/video/i3U_jL1SuO0/v-deo.htmlsi=ma6Ve6Q_ky6SG_Az The motor appears to be pretty much identical! Thanks for watching!
Yes it's doing very well with the mix of 120 and 70 year old parts. Well planned on safety with grading around drum. Excellent 400/415 VAC 3 Phase AC motor 21 HP pulling just 8.5A per phase. Some of these older elevators are 230-240VAC 3 phase and pull a lot more current. Sliding/traveling defector sheave, counterweight ropes. I see the roping was different with the sheave placement instead of the cab sheave running at an angle, and counterweight rope crossing above. This elevator is running like a well oiled and maintained machine. Built to last.
Update on Jr hospital, Sadly express lifts are messed up now, They are going to wrong floors and even moving by its self automatically without floor pressed. Lift s has a messed up floors because 1 is ground 2 is basement and 3 is top. Lift P is still broken.
The 2 large Expresses (sorry, I’m not sure of their letters) have a deliberate feature where they park on the lowest floor. If you don’t select a floor before the direction arrow goes out, it automatically enters its self a call to the bottom floor. Even if you give it an upward call afterwards, it will be put second in the queue. So that will be why that is :-) It’s a shame that lift P is still broken. It’s been quite a while now. Hopefully they will fix it eventually!
I only seen r waygood lift once on the @mrmatandchay channel anyway the lift on the @mrmatandchay channel is abandoned but finally it's about time we see a working one also it's nearly silent when running
This is a vintage 1900s Waygood Winding Drum lift which has been modernised by Express in the 1950s/60s!
Considering that the mechanical aspects of this lift are a mixture of 120 and 70 year old parts, I think this lift is doing very well!
The only recent modification to this lift is the controller being replaced.
This would usually be quite a big deal, but in this case it isn’t!
The replacement controller is also relay based, and therefore runs the lift just the same as it would have previously.
It’s very interesting how the old cabinet is still there. In fact, the new cabinet has actually been bolted to the front of the old one! Quite a strange thing to do if you ask me. But it definitely beats scrapping it!
You can tell that the Express modernisation is either from the 1950s or early 60s, (and not any later) due to the fact that the relays are mounted in the vertical position.
In the mid 60s, Express updated their cabinet design to have the relays mounted horizontally instead to help with maintenance.
The era of installation is also indicated by the colour of the cabinet being ‘Battleship Grey’, which was common for Express in the 50s.
(Later colours used were others such as dark green in the 70s, turquoise in the 80s and dark blue in the 90s.).
If anyone knows the actual reason behind these different colour changes, I’d be very interested to hear!
⛔️⚠️
It's important to mention the many dangers which are present in lift motor rooms.
They are not environments for the inexperienced, and one mistake could be the last thing you do.
There are exposed terminals with voltages of up to 415 volts. If you touch them, they WILL kill you.
Please do not put yourself into this dangerous environment without proper authorisation.
⛔️⚠️
Before this lift was modernised by Express, I believe that it originally would have resembled this lift shown here:
ua-cam.com/video/i3U_jL1SuO0/v-deo.htmlsi=ma6Ve6Q_ky6SG_Az
The motor appears to be pretty much identical!
Thanks for watching!
Really impressive to see this lift over a century old still running with only as little modification as possible. Very good presentation as usual!
What an absolute beauty! Still runs better than 99% of modern lifts
What a beautiful old survivor! Hopefully it isn't in danger of being modernised and will be kept as historical as possible!
Yes it's doing very well with the mix of 120 and 70 year old parts. Well planned on safety with grading around drum. Excellent 400/415 VAC 3 Phase AC motor 21 HP pulling just 8.5A per phase. Some of these older elevators are 230-240VAC 3 phase and pull a lot more current. Sliding/traveling defector sheave, counterweight ropes. I see the roping was different with the sheave placement instead of the cab sheave running at an angle, and counterweight rope crossing above. This elevator is running like a well oiled and maintained machine. Built to last.
EPIC lift.
Update on Jr hospital, Sadly express lifts are messed up now, They are going to wrong floors and even moving by its self automatically without floor pressed. Lift s has a messed up floors because 1 is ground 2 is basement and 3 is top. Lift P is still broken.
The 2 large Expresses (sorry, I’m not sure of their letters) have a deliberate feature where they park on the lowest floor.
If you don’t select a floor before the direction arrow goes out, it automatically enters its self a call to the bottom floor. Even if you give it an upward call afterwards, it will be put second in the queue.
So that will be why that is :-)
It’s a shame that lift P is still broken. It’s been quite a while now. Hopefully they will fix it eventually!
Lift S I pressed 3 when doors opened, sent me to 2 and then 1 when I press 3 again
Weird shit like this still exist today intresting it’s still there today nice vid anyways
I only seen r waygood lift once on the @mrmatandchay channel anyway the lift on the @mrmatandchay channel is abandoned but finally it's about time we see a working one also it's nearly silent when running