{"id":677,"date":"2013-05-30T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/677-day-516-the-lamson-rapid-wire-system-ii.html"},"modified":"2013-06-01T00:49:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T14:19:06","slug":"day-516-the-lamson-rapid-wire-system-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/677-day-516-the-lamson-rapid-wire-system-ii.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 516, The Lamson Rapid Wire System II"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1050 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"643\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/516-_MG_5183.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThis view of the The Lamson Rapid Wire System shows both its simplicity and complexity.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo send the cart the clerk would pull down slowly on the pull-chord until the the launching frame was held under stretched elastic against a stop. On release the the launcher would send the cart flying along the wire to its receiving station where a similar mechanism was ready to initiate the return journey.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI have not seen how the packages would have been attached or removed from the carts but can imagine something  equally as imaginative.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNext time you are strolling down Rundle Street and have a moment to spare, come up to The Writer&#8217;s Centre in the Malcolm Reid building, take your mind back 100 years and imagine would it would have been like.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 516, The Lamson Rapid Wire System II&#8217; 1\/160s f\/2.8 ISO1600 70mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; This view of the The Lamson Rapid Wire System shows both its simplicity and complexity. To send the cart the clerk would pull down slowly on the pull-chord until the the launching frame was held under stretched elastic against a stop. On release the the launcher would send the cart flying &#8230; <a title=\"Day 516, The Lamson Rapid Wire System II\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/677-day-516-the-lamson-rapid-wire-system-ii.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 516, The Lamson Rapid Wire System II\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}