Re: (NSW) Wooden escalator treads

[Andrew Price <aprice@mail.dotcom.fr>]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 21:47:21 +1000, "White Family"
<whitefamily@pacific.net.au> wrote:

>I saw that at Town Hall No. 5, at the north end, the escalator appeared to
>have wooden cleats on the treads. I could not make out what the base
>structure was constructed from. Wasn't the wooden escalator implicated in
>the causes of the 1987 London Underground fire? How much of it was wood I
>don't know.
>
>There is an interesting Web page on this fire at
>http://www.firetactics.com/KINGS%20CROSS.htm
>
>Geoff

There are still a number of escalators with wooden treads in use in
Paris, too.