Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Express Lift Co

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of Westminster, later of Northampton

1917 Private company.

1927 Was a subsidiary of GEC

1930 Amalgamated with Smith, Major and Stevens. The works were moved to Northampton to share Smith, Major and Stevens' Abbey Works.

By 1953 was a subsidiary of GEC

1961 Lift and escalator manufacturers.

1996 Otis acquired Express Lifts of Northampton, and merged it with another UK subsidiary, Evans Lifts; the Northampton factory was closed; a new joint company was established called Express Evans Lifts, based in Leicester[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, July 19, 1996