We asked Gina Barney to take a look back into her library and choose something from the archives of interest to our readers today.

This extract is taken from the Handbook to EN81-1:1985 by Andre Leenders in 1986

“Lift Industry News republished my paper Rated load and maximum available car area – a proposal to revise EN81-20, Table 6 that I gave at the Lift and Escalator Symposium in September 2022. This paper explains that the area associated with the rated load of a lift car is too small to accommodate passengers comfortably. It proposes increasing the available car area for each rated load as shown in Table A below.”

There is a 15 minute video of my presentation at: https://youtu.be/1kMO06e8_Yc