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Brändle (Switzerland) / Brandley (USA)

seilbahnbilder.ch's Photo seilbahnbilder.ch 29 Aug 2007

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!

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LSS's Photo LSS 29 Aug 2007

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.
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SkiBachelor's Photo SkiBachelor 29 Aug 2007

I should mention that the Brandle lift at Homewood came from Mammoth Mountain which was Chair #1 there.
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seilbahnbilder.ch's Photo seilbahnbilder.ch 30 Aug 2007

Do you have any pictures...? :biggrin:
This post has been edited by www.seilbahnbilder.ch: 30 August 2007 - 06:59 AM
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SkiBachelor's Photo SkiBachelor 30 Aug 2007

I only have pictures of the remains of the former Brandle lift at Homewood.
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seilbahnbilder.ch's Photo seilbahnbilder.ch 01 Sep 2007

View PostSkiBachelor, 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! :smile:
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seilbahnbilder.ch's Photo seilbahnbilder.ch 21 Mar 2008

Can you show any pictures of the remains?
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skiersage's Photo skiersage 21 Mar 2008

View PostSkiBachelor, 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
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Picture from www.chairlift.org
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seilbahnbilder.ch's Photo seilbahnbilder.ch 23 Mar 2008

View Postskiersage, on Mar 22 2008, 12:41 AM, said:

Chair 1 at Mamoth
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Picture from www.chairlift.org


Thank you for this photo. But I think that's not a Brändle chairlift... :sad:
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SkiBachelor's Photo SkiBachelor 23 Mar 2008

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's Photo seilbahnbilder.ch 23 Mar 2008

Thank you for the pictures! The deflection pulley seems to be manufactured by Brändle!
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Tramway Guy's Photo Tramway Guy 17 May 2008

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.
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sheave's Photo sheave 06 Jun 2020

View PostSkiBachelor, 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)?
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sheave's Photo sheave 28 Oct 2020

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

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