Montgomery Escalator & Kone Traction Elevator at the Education Building.

[cannycart]

It's a shame the Montgomery went out of business.. They made some pretty nice elevators and escalators!

[CaptainElevator42189]

Yes, I too liked Montgomery elevators & escalators. It would be amazing if Dover, Westinghouse, and Montgomery were still in business today.

[cannycart]

@CaptainElevator42189 Very True. I would love to see all the modern technologies they would have come up with like Destination Dispatch, Miconic 10, and Gen2.

[granskare]

@cannycart Kone bought Montgomery so in a way, they are still in business :)

[CaptainElevator42189]

That's correct, and it's been 10-15 years since the buyout, but this year, Kone has been in business for 100 years.

[CaptainElevator42189]

Yes, after Kone bought out Montgomery in 1994, it was Montgomery-Kone from 1995 to 1999, and then Kone from 2000 up to now. Also, the elevators and escalators are still made in Moline Illinois, just like ThyssenKrupp working from the existing Dover factory in Memphis Tennessee.

[cannycart]

@granskare KONE does not manufacture as many Montgomery KONE's. They just use KONE.

[CaptainElevator42189]

Yes, because with the Kone elevators mentioned, they are basically a rebranded version of Montgomery elevators.

[granskare]

@cannycart KONE company acquired Montgomery and it became KONE Montgomery and some years later the Montgomery name was dropped but they still make the stuff here in Moline, Illinois...I don't know where else KONE makes the stuff...

[cannycart]

@granskare Correct. 

[CaptainElevator42189]

Allright, now we have hit it on the nail.

[CaptainElevator42189]

Yes.

[cannycart]

single file escalator?

[CaptainElevator42189]

Very interesting, and this was my first video that I made with true success. Also, it's from November 2007, which was two months before I posted it.

[Elevator5519]

This is the first elevator video i watched, and was in February, 2008, And was before i even had a YouTube Account!

[CaptainElevator42189]

Thanks.

[qk62y]

nice

[CaptainElevator42189]

Yes, these escalators use 24" wide steps, and the floor indicator signal was used on the older Epco fixtures.

[ElevatorMan2012]

The elevator indicator sounds a bit like the Armor one, with that chirp it makes.

[ElevatorMan2012]

I think there are those same narrow escalators at Union Station in Washington, D.C.

[CaptainElevator42189]

Again, the escalators date back to 1973, whereas the elevators date back to the early 2000's, and they're the same brand, with a name change.

[sethn172]

Don't you mean "Montgomery Globe and Parallelogram" not "Kone?" LOL Anyway, great vid! Never seen so many "G&P" escalators all at once!