Elevator Cage

Here are the Canon Foundry facts about the pod vehicle called ‘Elevator Cage’, all taken from the 1966 Thunderbirds Annual put out by City Magazines Ltd.:

• The actual ‘elevator cage’ is a semi-circle transparent ‘bubble’ atop a single telescopic leg
• The vehicle underneath the cage is referred to as the ‘Elevator Vehicle’
• The vehicle contains a cab; a hatch opens and the operator has to climb out of the hatch, up a two-step ladder and into the cage to operate it
• The vehicle runs on two caterpillar tracks churned by five gear wheels on either side of the chassis
• There is an extendable walkway to bridge whatever gap exists between the cage, once extended, and the surface the rescuer needs to reach
• The vehicle can be moved while the telescopic leg is extended

Note: Not to be confused with the Elevator Car which debuted in the first Thunderbirds episode, ‘Trapped in the Sky,’ but is clearly unrelated to this Elevator Cage