| Hammond & Champness Ltd. | |
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Founded |
1905 |
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Founders |
Ernest Hammond and Harold Champness |
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Acquired by |
Dover Corp. (1971), Thyssen AG (1999) |
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Year active |
1905 - 1999 |
Hammond and Champness (often styled as H+C) was a British elevator manufacturer.
History
Hammond & Champness was established in 1905 by cousins Ernest Hammond and Harold Champness. The company was known as Hammond Brothers and Champness Ltd. when Leonard Hammond joined the company. Hammond & Champness originally manufactures water-powered hydraulic elevators.
In 1932, the company went bankrupt and was later taken over by E Pollard & Co. Ltd. but still run as a separate company. Later, the company was renamed to simply "Hammond & Champness". In 1967, Hammond & Champness took over Aldous & Campbell's hydraulic elevators.
The company remained independent until 1971, when it was taken over by Dover Corporation of the United States, as a means of entering the British market. H+C Dover from the mid-1970s onward was effectively a brand for Dover equipment installed in the UK.
H+C was effectively absorbed into Thyssen along with the rest of Dover's elevator business in 1999.
Notable installations
- Hammond & Champness Building (159 St. John Street), London
- Hatton Garden, London
- University of Kent, Kent
- Cornwallis South-East Octagon
- Grimond Building
- Kent Business School
- King College Hospital - Atthur Levin Building, London
- Cardiff Market, Cardiff
- Gatehouse, Harlow
- Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro
- Laura Ahley, Bromley
- Centrale Shopping Centre, Croydon
- The Harlequin Theatre, Redhill
- Lee Longland, Birmingham
- Milford House, Salisbury
- The Collonades Car Park, Doncaster (1989)
- Barnsley Interchange Station (Platforms 1 & 2), Barnsley
- Glasgow Museum of Transport, Glasgow, Scotland
- Glasgow Royal Infirmary - Queen Elizabeth Building, Scotland
- Concert Square Multi-Storey Car Park, Glasgow
- Copthall Leisure Center, Barnet
Trivia
- Hammond & Champness made three different models of elevators in the 1980's that were based of Dover elevators; The Warden (for residential), The Balmoral (for office buildings) and The Windsor.
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