Gibraltar Cable Car

The Gibraltar Cable Car was built in 1966 by Swiss cable car experts Von Roll Holding, with the base and summit stations designed by Public Works Department architect Brian Helliwell and atop Signal Hill Battery. The battery was located alongside a Signal Station and was equipped with two 3-inch 30-cwt anti-aircraft guns and a 40-mm Bofors gun during World War II.[2] Remains of an earlier cable station that was used to bring supplies (or a brave man) up to the top of signal hill via a rope are still evident.[3] Besides the remains of earlier military buildings there is also a short tunnel that runs east to west under the station.[2]