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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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- ↑ The Times, July 19, 1996