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[seilbahnbilder.ch]

Hello! Do you know something about chairlifts and t-bar's of the constructor Brandley in the USA? (in Switzerland his Company was named "Brändle")

Here you can see a referance-list of the year 1960!

[LSS]

The last and only Brandley I know of in California was at Homewood/Tahoe Ski Bowl. Removed a few years ago and replaced with a new Partek before Doppelmayr bought Partek.

[SkiBachelor]

I should mention that the Brandle lift at Homewood came from Mammoth Mountain which was Chair #1 there.

[seilbahnbilder.ch]

Do you have any pictures...?

This post has been edited by www.seilbahnbilder.ch: 30 August 2007 - 06:59 AM

[SkiBachelor]

I only have pictures of the remains of the former Brandle lift at Homewood.

[seilbahnbilder.ch]

SkiBachelor, on Aug 31 2007, 05:28 AM, said:

I only have pictures of the remains of the former Brandle lift at Homewood.

That's interssting too!

[seilbahnbilder.ch]

Can you show any pictures of the remains?

[skiersage]

SkiBachelor, on Aug 29 2007, 09:05 PM, said:

I should mention that the Brandle lift at Homewood came from Mammoth Mountain which was Chair #1 there.

Chair 1 at Mamoth


Picture from www.chairlift.org

[seilbahnbilder.ch]

skiersage, on Mar 22 2008, 12:41 AM, said:

Chair 1 at Mamoth


Picture from www.chairlift.org

Thank you for this photo. But I think that's not a Brändle chairlift...

[SkiBachelor]

That's the chair that Homewood purchased and when I asked the mountain manager who the manufacturer was, he told me Brandle.

Remains of the Quail double at Homewood.

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[seilbahnbilder.ch]

Thank you for the pictures! The deflection pulley seems to be manufactured by Brändle!

[Tramway Guy]

There was a Brandle Lift at Crystal Mountain in Thompsonville, Michigan. I saw it operating in the early '80s. It used an early Kissling Planetary Gearbox.

[sheave]

SkiBachelor, on 29 August 2007 - 06:05 PM, said:

I should mention that the Brandle lift at Homewood came from Mammoth Mountain which was Chair #1 there.

Mammoth's Chair #1 was made by United Tramway (they were out of San Francisco, but there is nothing to be found about them):
https://www.inc.com/...in_pagen_2.html
https://www.powder.c...ery-dave-mccoy/
It was removed in 1988 and the Quail Lake Double at Homewood was built anytime between 1978 and 1987. It could fit, if you consider the usual "variation" in the data. Mabye Brandle just did an upgrade (if they still were in business by that time, I thought they closed by the end of the 1960s)?

This post has been edited by sheave: 06 June 2020 - 11:33 PM

[sheave]

Could this be a picture of the Quail Lake double at Homewood?

https://www.flickr.c...-2ztyF2-47kP1A/