Interior transportation at the New York world´s fair

FOR temporary buildings, an unprecedented amount of equipment for vertical and horizontal transportation has been provided in the exhibit buildings at the New York World´s Fair. Thirteen exhibits have among them 21 elevators and 16 electric stairways. General Motors Building has three elevators and four electric stairways, and the spectator conveyer for the “Futurama” (see article in December 1939 issue). The French Building has five elevators and four electric stairways; the Russian Building, five elevators and two electric stairways; the Theme Building, two electric stairways, one of them the longest in the United States. The American Telephone and Telegraph Building and the Westinghouse Building each have two electric stairways, and the Italian Building has two elevators. Six other buildings — British, Ford Motor, Petroleum Industry, Rumanian, United States Government, and World´s Fair Headquarters have one elevator each. The Ford Motor Company also offers direct transportation through part of its exhibit by automobile.