Allmänna Svenska Elekriska AB (or ASEA for short, later known as Asea AB), was a major electric company, founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 1883, but later moved to Västerås and had filial offices in Ludvika. ASEA manufactured almost everything that had to do with electricity and kept a strong position in the Swedish market. These includes alot of electrical locomotives (some of them were even exported to Austria, Norway, and the United States) but also elevators, that were installed in Sweden and Finland foremost. The elevator division was merged with Graham Brothers to become ASEA-Graham in 1962. In 1968, KONE gradually bought it up. The company itself merged with Brown Boveri & Cie in 1987, becoming ABB.
Notable aquisitons[]
- Nya Förenade Elektriska AB (1916)
- Graham Brothers Hissar AB (1936, run as an separate elevator division untill 1962)
- Luth & Rosén's Elektriska AB (1930, ran as a daughter company until 1940)
- HVILANs Mekaniska Verkstad (1950, only the elevator part, which was shut down immediately)
Notable installations[]
Sweden[]
ASEA were one of two major companies installing elevators in Sweden and a lot of elevators were built by them. Here is a few:
- Katarinahissen, Slussen, Stockholm (1936)
- Hornsgatan 83, Stockholm
- Rindögatan 18, Gärdet, Stockholm
- Dalapalatset (Södra Skeppsbron 4), Gävle (1939)
- Staketgatan 11, Gävle (one of the first elevators installed in Gävle)
- Norra Fältsakärsgatan 1, Gävle (1940)
- Södra Skeppsbron 4, Gävle (1939)
- Byggmästargatan 1, Gävle
- Södra Fältskärsvägen 1, Gävle (1939)
- Mälarsjukhuset, Eskilstuna
- Heden 128, Bollnäs (1961)
- Tekniska Muséet
- Hötorget, Rådmansgatan, Odenplan & S:t Eriksplan Tunnelbana Stations (escalators, 1952)
Finland[]
There is quite few ASEA elevators in Helsinki. These are available on YouTube which have been filmed by some Finnish elevator enthusiasts, but the addresses are not stated.
Romania[]
- Str. Armenească 14A,Bucharest[1]
Indonesia[]
Hotel Niagara, a historic five storey hotel in the district-town of Lawang in Malang, East Java has a defunct manually controlled ASEA elevator from 1918. It served five floors and has two entrances on every floor with wooden doors that have window. The machine room is on the third floor just to the right of the hoistway door. The elevator has been decommissioned since the 1990s because the management claimed that it would consume a large amount of electricity in the building. One can still see the elevator car on the first floor where the landing door is not locked. It is the only known ASEA elevator in Indonesia.
Notes and references[]
- ↑ The last retake of old original and epic vintage ASEA traction elev at Str. Armenească 14A,Bucharest (youtube.com)