Elevator-Style Garage Car Park Cutaway, 1920

Elevator-Style Garage Car Park Cutaway, 1920
Elevator-Style Garage Car Park Cutaway, 1920
Elevator-Style Garage Car Park Cutaway, 1920
Elevator-Style Garage Car Park Cutaway, 1920

Elevator-style car parks were still quite a novelty when this cutaway was published in 1920.

The garage shown could hold 6x the number of cars that a comparable, ordinary garage could hold.

This garage was basically all elevators:  42 elevators that retained the cars during the stay rather than off-loading them.  Each elevat0r could hold 7 cars, for a total of 294 cars per garage.

Source:  Popular Science Monthly February 1920

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