 A major British contributor was Bullivant who became a constituent of British Ropes in 1924.The perfection of the aerial tramway through mining led to its application in other fields including logging, sugar fields, beet farming, tea plantations, coffee beans and guano mining.A resource on the history of aerial tramways in the mining industry is "Riding the High Wire, Aerial Mine Tramways in the West"

In the beginning of the 20th century the rise of the middle class and the leisure industry allowed for investment in sight-seeing machines.