This startling sight shows one of the largest cranes in Britain at the time, all 200 tons of it, on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street hoisting an escalator into position at a major shop refit at McDonald’s Wylie and Lochhead.
Press reports of the time tell of the heroics from crane operators Donald McLeod and Victor Brown, who had the nerve-wracking job of making sure all went safely and smoothly.
Memories: When a 200 ton crane made an escalator fly on Buchanan Street
