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Westinghouse Electric Corp. is an American manufacturing company. After making such products, including elevators, they sold their elevator division to Schindler in 1989.

History

Westinghouse started making elevators in 1928, though it appears they manufactured elevator motors before then. In 1949, Westinghouse introduced its first fully automatic elevators. They joined other brands such as Rotary (later Dover), Haughton , Otis , and others.

In 1975, Westinghouse's European elevator division was sold to Kone and became Kone Westinghouse for a short time. The division had operations located in France, Belgium, and Germany. In 1981, Westinghouse took over O.Thompson & Co., an company that manufactured elevator controllers and elevator monitoring systems. In 1984, Westinghouse along with the South Korea based Hyundai Group formed Hyundai Elevator Co. Ltd.

Westinghouse sold their elevator division to Schindler in 1989 and officially defunct in the following year. In addition, Millar Elevator Service Co., which was once part of Westinghouse, became a division of Schindler in 1990. This lasted until 2002 when both companies merged.

Notable installations

United States

Illinois

  • Sears/Willis Tower, Chicago, IL (1972, modernized with Otis CompassPLUS from 2019 - 2020)
  • Richard J. Daley Center, Chicago, IL
  • Congress Plaza Hotel (Buckingham Tower), Chicago, IL (1960s? Modernized in the 2000s?)
  • Indian Lakes Hotel, Bloomingdale, IL (Hotel License revoked)
  • Macy's - Woodfield Mall, Schaumburg, IL (1971, modernized by Virginia Controls in 2006)
  • Yorktown Center, Lombard, IL (Escalators)
  • Sears Golf Mill Shopping Center, Niles, IL (1960, decommissioned in 2019)
  • Carson Pirie Scott Yorktown Center, Lombard, IL (Escalators)
  • 625 N North Ct, Palatine, IL (1977)
  • 1701 E Lake Ave, Glenview, IL (1975)

Minnesota

  • Wells Fargo Center, Duluth, MN(modernized by Schindler in 2014)
  • Campbell Mithun Tower, Minneapolis, MN
  • Phillips Wangensteen Building, Minneapolis, MN
  • Moos Tower, Minneapolis, MN

Missouri

  • Hilton Ballpark Hotel, St. Louis, MO[1]
  • Sheraton Plaza, Clayton, MO[2]
  • Clayton Tower, Clayton, MO
  • Town and Country Building, Clayton, MO
  • 200 South Hanley Road, Clayton, MO(modernized 2017-2018 by local company)[2]

New Jersey

  • Macy's, Hamilton Mall, McKee City, NJ
  • JCPenney, Hamilton Mall, McKee City, NJ (modernized by Schindler in 2000)
  • Egg Harbor Township High School, Egg Harbor Township, NJ (modernized by ThyssenKrupp in 2003)
  • Steinbach/Value City, Shore Mall, Egg Harbor Township, NJ (modernized by Millar in 1996, building torn down in 2013)
  • Wingate by Wyndham Atlantic City West, Egg Harbor Township, NJ
  • One Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill, NJ
  • Caesars Atlantic City, Atlantic City, NJ

New York

  • Marriott Marquis Hotel, New York City, NY (Upgraded to Schindler Miconic 10 in 2005, Then to Schindler PORT in 2019.) [3][1]
  • Sheraton Hotel Times Square, New York City, NY
  • Raddison Hotel, Rochester, NY
  • Original 7 World Trade Center, New York City, NY (1987, building collapsed on September 11, 2001)

Pennsylvania

  • US Steel Tower (USX), Pittsburgh, PA (1969, received an Innovation modernization (all banks except lobby and service cars), ID modernization (55-62 bank), and a PORT modernization in the 2010s (all main banks except possibly 55-62. Most service cars and the lobby car are still original)
  • Alcoa Building, Pittsburgh, PA
  • Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh, PA[4] (Received a full replacement to Otis CompassPlus in 2014-16, along with the O Car getting a full Gen2 replacement)
  • Gulf Tower, Pittsburgh, PA
  • May Building, Pittsburgh, PA
  • One Oxford Centre (1983, received a full replacement to PORT/6400 in 2016 or 17-18 or 19)

Texas

Arlington
  • Hammond Hall, UT Arlington
  • 2000 Sam Houston
  • 2411 Winewood
  • 2102 Highbank
  • 701 Tharp
  • 818 West Park Row
  • 1400 Lamar
  • 2101 Browning
Corpus Christi
  • Wilson Plaza (1950)
    1. Low rise bank modernized by Montgomery in 1988.
    2. High rise bank had controller and fixtures replaced in 1999, Smartrise package.
  • Wells Fargo Tower (1942)
    1. Originally built as the historic Robert Driscoll Hotel with only 1 signal controlled freight car.
    2. 4 story bank building added in 1960 along with one elevator.
    3. Tower added on in 1972 with escalators added into the original building.
    4. Tower elevators modernized by TKE in 2014.
  • Omni Hotel
    • Car stations in hotel replaced in 2019, controllers still original.
San Antonio
  • Majestic Theatre (1929)
    1. Theater elevator installed in 1929.
    2. Majestic building added in 1950 with 3 elevators, all upgraded in 1992.
  • Wedgewood Building
    1. Car panels replaced in the 1990s.
    2. Building condemned by a deadly fire in 2014.
  • Hilton Palacio Del Rio(1968)
    1. Modernized in 1999 with the first destination dispatch system in the world.
    2. Modernized in 2022 with traditional fixtures.
  • Milam Building
    • Fixtures replaced in 2010
  • Marriott Rivercenter
    • Every elevator being converted to the Schindler PORT system w/ the parking & river elevators receiving TXpress and HXpress mods[1]
  • Northwood Tower (1991)
    • Modernized by TKE 2017–2018
  • Embassy Suites SAT
    • Modernized 2020-21 by Schindler
  • Oak Park
    • Modernized by TKE in 2020
Elsewhere around the state
  • Metro Tower, Lubbock, TX (1955)[2]
    • Modernized by Schindler in 2014


Iowa

  • Capital Square, Des Moines, IA
  • Comfort Inn, Des Moines, IA
  • Dotdash Meredith, Des Moines, IA
  • OpenLoop Tower Parking Garage, Des Moines, IA
  • Regency West Office Park, West Des Moines, IA

Other states

  • Capital Bank Plaza, NC (1965)[5]
  • Carew Tower, Cincinnati, OH
  • Sears, Livonia, MI
  • Tampa International Airport, FL (mod. Schindler)
  • Macy's (Kaufmann's) Charleston Town Center, Charleston, WV (Closed in 2019)
  • Rolling Acres Mall, Akron, OH (1975, went inactive and abandoned in 2008 and then demolished in 2019)
  • Oakland City Center, Oakland, CA (Inactive)

France

Brest

  • 15 Jean Baptiste Boussingault Street, Brest
  • 21 Glasgow Street, Brest
  • 6 Capitaine de Vaisseau Pierre Renon Street, Brest
  • 4 David Street, Brest
  • 32 Turenne Street, Brest
  • 17 Place Napoleon III, Brest (upgraded by KONE)
  • 17 Auguste Kervern Street, Brest
  • 30 Voltaire Street, Brest
  • 4 Rue Commandant Natalini, Brest
  • 35 Francois Cordon Street, Brest (modernized by KONE)

Others

  • Hôtel Le Goyen, Audierne
  • Soldta Ferrari Residence, Hyeres

Germany

  • UNI Center, Cologne, Germany (1972, modernized by KONE in 1991)
  • Aparthotel Adagio Frankfurt City, Messe, Germany (1973, modernized by KONE)

Other countries

  • Kitchener Complex (Block 808 and 809 French Road HDB), Singapore[6]

Trivia

  • DMR Control System, a programmed elevator system sold by The Express Lift Company of Northampton, England was produced under technical partnership with Westinghouse.
  • Westinghouse's Selectomatic elevator system is similar to the Otis Autotronic elevators.
  • Westinghouse had several technical partnerships and/or alliances with other foreign elevator manufacturers, some of them are:
    • Westinghouse and Elevadores Atlas from Brazil had a long lasting technology sharing agreement. Sometimes Westinghouse would use Villares steel, and some Atlas Elevators and escalators are nearly identical to Westinghouse products. Atlas itself was acquired by Schindler in 1999 (which acquired Westinghouse elevator division 10 years earlier).
    • It had a technical partnership with Mitsubishi Electric.[7] Some features found in 1960s-1970s Mitsubishi elevators in Asia were based on Westinghouse's features. For example, the standard Mitsubishi door sills look nearly identical to Westinghouse's, and the 1970s-1980s Mitsubishi "white button" fixtures were based on Westinghouse's Type "A" and "E" buttons. Westinghouse's "dinner bell" chime was also used in some older Mitsubishi elevators installed in the 1960s and 1970s.[8][9] Moreover, Mitsubishi's mechanical floor selector was heavily based on Westinghouse's selector.
    • It had a technical partnership with Boetticher y Navarro, an elevator manufacturer from Madrid, Spain.[10] Boetticher was acquired by Thyssen Aufzuge AG in 1984 and became Thyssen Boetticher.
    • When Hyundai Elevator Co. Ltd. was formed by both Westinghouse and South Korean Hyundai Group in 1984, Hyundai made elevators under Westinghouse's license until 1989 when Westinghouse's elevator division was sold to Schindler.
    • It had a technical partnership with The Express Lift Co. Ltd. of Northampton, England. Express Lift's DMR Control System was based on Westinghouse's Selectomatic system as the result of the partnership.
  • Westinghouse is often referred to as "Westy" by many YouTube elevator enthusiasts.
  • After Westinghouse's European elevator division was acquired by Kone in 1975, it became Kone Westinghouse for a short period. KONE Westinghouse products were also sold in Singapore and Malaysia under its sole distributor Harrisons Lister Ltd.,[11] which was originally a distributor of Schindler elevators in both countries from the 1950s until 1975. None of these products have been discovered in these countries so far.
  • Westinghouse elevators were also sold in Singapore, where they were distributed and installed by East Elevators Pte. Ltd..[12] An example of this was installed at Block 808 and 809 Kitchener Complex in French Road, but they were refurbished by EM Services and later modernized by ULift (which is now a brand of Cushman & Wakefield Singapore).

Gallery

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Modernized into Schindler PORT.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Selectomatic elevator system.
  3. Modernized with Miconic 10 in 2005.
  4. Modernized by Otis from September 2014 to March 2016, mostly were modernized into CompassPlus destination dispatch.
  5. Modernized into Schindler PORT in 2011.
  6. Initially refurbished by EM Services and then by ULift/XJ Elevator
  7. Page 16 Advertisements Column 3 - The Straits Times, 5 June 1965, Page 16 - NewspaperSG (scroll to bottom page)
  8. Vintage Mitsubishi Traction High Speed Elevators at Somewhere at Central Jakarta, Jakarta
  9. Riding the Last Lovely Westinghouse Selectomatic Mark IV - Civic Opera Building in Chicago, IL
  10. Westinghouse-Boetticher y Navarro (Madrid, 1957) Hoja Publicidad Ascensores - Todocoleccion
  11. Page 24 Advertisements Column 1 - The Straits Times, 4 December 1975, Page 24 - NewspaperSG
  12. TRADE TALK - BUSINESS TIMES, 27 November 1982, Page 3 - NewspaperSG

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