Disney style parking lot people mover
Disney style parking lot people mover
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Does anybody have any info on who makes the cars that form a train for the people movers at Disney and other parks? Or just the geometry of how they steer and track? I have an application for that style of train but can't find any information or a manufacturer. I don't know the correct terminology, as you can tell.





RE: Disney style parking lot people mover
I'm pretty sure that Disney made their own, but other places have bought them since, so somebody is, or was, making them.
It may be one of those markets like jetways, where the market is saturated in just a few years and the manufacturers prosper briefly and then starve.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Disney style parking lot people mover
I think others are made bye the same companies that make baggage tractors. FMC, Yale maybe even Toyota.
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Golf carts also work
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Disney style parking lot people mover
I was an employee there about twenty years ago and it was a fun place to work and design rides. They survived mostly as a long time vendor for Disney (I worked on a free-fall tower ride), Six-Flags of Texas, and other theme parks in the States and in London, Paris, and Tokyo.
You might want to go to the S&S Worldwide website to see if they can help you. They are at:
http://www.s-spower.com/about.php
and also:
S&S Worldwide, Inc.
350 West 2500 North
Logan, UT 84341
Phone: (435) 752-1987
FAX (435) 752-1948
Frank Reid
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Now, there are more geometric elements in play. The tongue that steers the front trailer axle should be always tangent to the front axle center track, which means the hitch ball/ring on the trailer in front has to swing the hitch point outside of its own track, which happens if the hitch is mounted to the rear of the trailer, some distance behind the rear axle. So the tongue length and the hitch overhang have to be accounted for.
( I'm supposed to be doing something else now; anybody want to make a diagram? )
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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