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An Elevator That Actually Goes Sideways

2017-06-26

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I've filmed a paternoster lift; I've filmed the strange Genoa elevator that sort-of goes sideways. So when I got an email from Thyssenkrupp, an elevator company, saying "come and see our Multi elevator that actually goes sideways", I wasn't going to turn it down.

Full disclosure: Thyssenkrupp paid for my travel to Germany, but that's all they did. I'd got in touch with them last year asking to see this when it opened; their PR firm replied, offering to fly me out. They had no editorial control over this, and didn't get to see it before it was uploaded!

More information about Multi: https://multi.thyssenkrupp-elevator.com/en/

Thanks to Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) for help editing the interviews!

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