Brändle (Switzerland) / Brandley (USA)
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!
Here you can see a referance-list of the year 1960!
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.
SkiBachelor 29 Aug 2007
I should mention that the Brandle lift at Homewood came from Mammoth Mountain which was Chair #1 there.
seilbahnbilder.ch 30 Aug 2007
Do you have any pictures...?
This post has been edited by www.seilbahnbilder.ch: 30 August 2007 - 06:59 AM
This post has been edited by www.seilbahnbilder.ch: 30 August 2007 - 06:59 AM
SkiBachelor 30 Aug 2007
I only have pictures of the remains of the former Brandle lift at Homewood.
seilbahnbilder.ch 01 Sep 2007
skiersage 21 Mar 2008
seilbahnbilder.ch 23 Mar 2008
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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Remains of the Quail double at Homewood.
homewood.jpg (93.49K)
Number of downloads: 110 homewood2.jpg (89.94K)
Number of downloads: 109
seilbahnbilder.ch 23 Mar 2008
Thank you for the pictures! The deflection pulley seems to be manufactured by Brändle!
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.
sheave 06 Jun 2020
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 28 Oct 2020
Could this be a picture of the Quail Lake double at Homewood?
https://www.flickr.c...-2ztyF2-47kP1A/
https://www.flickr.c...-2ztyF2-47kP1A/