1.   The lifts were for transporting patients too sick to protest to departments on higher floors.

2.   A better clich would be a lift is a lift is a lift but not when it is in a hotel.

3.   In fact, the routine of a hotel building is one of the most demanding possible for the lifts are in action day and night, throughout the year.

4.   This actually allows the lift maintenance monitoring organisations to know that the lift is out of action before you do.

5.   Like any mechanical or electrical equipment, lifts are not eternal.

6.   Although the lifts were adjacent in a common lift well, the main passenger loading was taken by the two passenger lifts which shared a common control system.

7.   As each lift was modified, work was commenced on the next lift, so that two lifts were available for full service to the hotel at any time.