Harrod’s has the motto “All Things for All People, Everywhere”
The story goes that a Punter decided to test this by ordering an elephant sandwich. The assistant went to check and came back with “Sir, you will have to wait a bit as we have run out of bread.”
For those who have marvelled at the request made to Magic to bring someone a tiger, it would be interesting to note that Harrod’s used to have till 2014 a Pet Kingdom on the fourth floor where they had an assorted menagerie of animals including elephants, alligators and tigers for sale. Ronald Reagan did buy a baby elephant at Harrod’s in 1970. Noel Coward was said to have bought an alligator.
Another interesting story is that the first escalator in the world was tested here in 1898. Customers were offered brandy at the top to revive them after their ordeal. 
The safety of the escalator 
at a railway station (Earls Court) installed much later was demonstrated by a one-legged man riding it up and down all day long. Why the sight of a one-legged man was thought to be compelling proof of safety can only be speculated upon – the public was probably much more trusting and unskeptical then. The campaign also owes its success to the absence of Twitter and the absence of LOLfaces as a concept.
