Abstract: This folding hood for protecting the passengers of chair-lifts against weather conditions comprises a plurality of bows pivoted to one another, with the rearmost box pivoted to the chair, the front portion of the hood being transparent and the rear portion thereof being provided with a backlight, the hood when unfolded converting the chair into a substantially closed compartment leaving only a front, lower aperture for the passage of the passengers' legs, the arrangement being such that the conventional guard-rail equipping the chair cannot be raised unless the hood is opened.

Abstract: The gondola for an aerial ropeway comprises on a same lateral side two access openings extending from top to bottom and adapted to be cleared by pivotal movements of two portions of the gondola wall. It comprises a central ring rigid with the carrier frame and a pair of molded plastic half-shells constituting these two portions and adapted to pivot about separate axes away from a narrow side of the central ring while surrounding the opposite wide side thereof in order to clear two apertures on each side of a pair of bench seats disposed back to back. This arrangement is applicable to automatic opening and closing gondolas.