Oct 8, 2006 10:24
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French term
Escaliers métalliques à volée droite
French to English
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Construction / Civil Engineering
This is from a list of French standards. Each one has only a short explanatory sentence, so no other useful context to go on. Overall text concerns recommended equipment for an engineering factory.
- La norme NFE 85.031
Installations Industrielles, Escaliers métalliques à volée droite.
- La norme NFE 85.031
Installations Industrielles, Escaliers métalliques à volée droite.
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straight flight of metal stairs / staircase
Personally, I'd have thought that the feminine agreement of 'droite' means 'straight' and goes with 'volée', I feel sure that if it had meant 'right-hand' it would have been expressed in different terms...
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Note added at 20 mins (2006-10-08 10:45:46 GMT)
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If this concerns a standard, it seems logical to me that it might refer to straight flights of (industrial) metal stairs, where safety regulations might be expected to be quite specific.
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Note added at 20 mins (2006-10-08 10:45:46 GMT)
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If this concerns a standard, it seems logical to me that it might refer to straight flights of (industrial) metal stairs, where safety regulations might be expected to be quite specific.
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Comment: "Different ways of phrasing it, but this definitely seems to be the meaning. Many thanks to everyone who contributed."
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Wendy Cummings
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right-hand metal staircase
volée - flight of stairs
Perhaps it refers to a spiral staircase, or a flight that curves to the right?
See the entry for "hand" : http://www.stairsandrails.com/glossary.htm
Perhaps it refers to a spiral staircase, or a flight that curves to the right?
See the entry for "hand" : http://www.stairsandrails.com/glossary.htm
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Tony M
: If these are general specifications, it seems to me odd they would specify 'r/h'; in any given factory one might expect a mix of l/h and r/h
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Yes, I see your point, thanks for the comment
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muitoprazer (X)
: spiral is absolutely right.If the stairs were face on with no turn one way or the other,there would have been no need to specify.Also they are in metal and could be casecurity caged for access to hazardous places.
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hannalucas
: I think 'droite' in this context means straight and not left or right side.
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thanks. I do see the point, made also by Tony
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Straight flight steel stairs
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asptech
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straight steel stair flights
literally
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straight line metal steps
that's what we use to get on our machines !!! Generally there are only 3 or 4 steps - a staircase seems a bit like overkill to me.
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Tony M
: Sorry, Connor, but that sort of steps would be an 'escabeau'; this sort of 'escalier' is pretty definitely a 'staircase' (or equivalent)
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