Téléphérique à lait

This "milk carrier" was designed in 1893 by a small Jura company in Saint-Lamain to bring down the cans of milk from the two milkings of the day for the manufacture of Comté cheese, from the hamlet of Chaumois-Boivin to the village of BLOIS-SUR-SEILLE where the cheese factory was located. Five hundred metres of cable and two hundred metres of difference in altitude. No engine: the basket containing the full cans that went down allowed the "empty cans" basket to go up. A simple and very ingenious mechanism enabled it to operate from 1893 until the closure of the cheese dairy in 1982.