List of Montgomery elevator fixtures

This is a list of Montgomery elevator fixtures in the United States & Canada.

1910 to 1960s

Vintage fixtures

Many of the Montgomery elevators from the 1910s to the 1930s, along with the Globe and Parallelogram elevators from the early 1940's to the mid 1960's used CJ Anderson fixtures, typically with HNRB buttons that were 3/4" diameter black buttons. Some vintage fixtures had HNRW illuminating white buttons and FG traveling lanterns on the later vintage elevators from the 1950's and 1960's. In the 1910's Montgomery also had a Manual Crank option.

Awesome Massive Antique Montgomery Freight Elevator at TW Building

1960s to 1980s

Square Buttons

These are found in the Montgomery "Globe & Parallelogram" (G&P) elevators from the late 1960s (circa 1965) until 1982. It has square plastic buttons with white illuminating lamp and black halo. Floor counters are also square plastic lenses with black halo and bears a close resemblance to the buttons. Directional lanterns usually have triangular lenses that illuminate green for up and red for down, although some newer (1980s) "G&P" lanterns might have up arrows that illuminate white instead of green, even if the down arrows were red. Early Installations don't include a "door close" button but later installations from the mid 1970s to early 1980s include that feature. These might have also been produced by either Innovation Industries or C. J. Anderson.

Original Montgomery G&P Hydraulic Elevator @ UW School of Social Work Bldg. Seattle, WA

Circle Buttons

Montgomery Circle Buttons ("Pre-G&P") is a very rare fixture that was available for regular orders in the early 60's. Circle Buttons are either Black or White with Black or White texting on them. Some installations come with Braille but sometimes come separate.

1980s to 2004

A-Series

A-Series fixtures were produced from 1982 to 1990, just when Montgomery switched logo designs from the "Globe & Parallelogram" logo to the newer "Twinkie M" logo. These were Montgomery's equivalent to fixtures such as the newer Otis Lexan, Westinghouse AE, and Dover Classic. The buttons are white with a black halo, clear cap, and are made in either a round button shape or square button shape(only used on position indicators). Multi-light floor indicators were also similar in design to the pushbuttons, while digital floor indicators were the digital Montgomery indicator with blue dot-matrix vacuum fluorescent display. Lanterns usually had large round or square lenses with black arrows printed on them, and illuminated white for up, red for down. However, A-Series fixtures are non-ADA compliant due to the flush mounted nature of pushbuttons and the floor indicator lenses. As a a result, some of these fixtures are being replaced with newer ADA compliant fixtures and sometimes leaving the original panels but retrofitting buttons in the holes. The A-Series was discontinued in 1990 in favor of installing elevators with Innovation Universal fixtures (from a third party company, offered by Montgomery as the "Conventional Fixtures" in Montgomery catalogs) in order to meet ADA compliance.

NOTE: A-Series fixtures were not used in Canada as Montgomery installations in Canada used a third party elevator company Dewhurst instead when the Square buttons were discontinued.

A Series Car Operating Panel at Portland International Airport PDX

Vector

Vector (also known as Vector Fixture Systems) fixtures were produced from 1986 to 1994, and they were used until Kone bought out Montgomery in 1994 but some records have shown these fixtures being used as late as 1996. As Montgomery's equivalent to Otis Series 1, Dover Impulse and Schindler MT, these fixtures use square gray buttons with a green illumination lamp block next to the button. Floor indicators are green dot-matrix vacuum fluorescent display, but some use a standard analog indicator (mainly used on hydraulic installations). While the fixtures met ADA compliance, standard Vector panels have the floor buttons mounted too high to meet ADA compliance. As a result, this is why Vector fixtures are rare, and many are now being replaced with newer ADA compliant fixtures, often from Innovation. The service cabinet is above the buttons and is not locked. Due to their somewhat cheap construction, the fixture is getting rarer, and even more so being fully intact. Because of this, when parts fail, they are more likely to get modernized than to be repaired with spare parts.

These fixtures were also installed in Canada, but they are usually referred to as "Montgomery KONE Vector" as Montgomery began its merge with KONE to form Montgomery KONE around 1985. They were also discontinued in 1994 when the Series 220 came out. "Montgomery KONE Vector" is exclusive to Canada, however, there was one modernization by Montgomery KONE with Vector fixtures in the United States and is the only known. However, these fixtures are also used outside of the United States and Canada within only one installation remaining its place on Kuwait.

Montgomery Vector Traction Elevator @ Rivercenter Mall San Antonio TX

SELECT

SELECT is another fixtures lineup that Montgomery produced in the 1990s alongside Vector, although some Montgomery-Kone elevators used the SELECT fixtures as well. The button is clear round which light up entirely when pressed and has a wraparound braille plate, separate round braille plate or tactile/braille legend next to the button. They might have been made by Innovation Industries for Montgomery. The landing floor indicator uses the same Vector green vacuum fluorescent display and has a scrolling text message below the number and arrow, although some of the Montgomery-KONE version of SELECT fixtures used the red LED floor indicator display found on newer installations. Not much is known about these fixtures as they are very rare. SELECT fixtures were offered in new installations as well as modernization.

Series 220 (Montgomery-KONE & KONE)

The Series 220 fixtures were introduced in 1994 when Kone bought out Montgomery in 1994 in the United States. As a successor to the Vector fixtures, they were also a competitor to Dover Impulse, Otis Series 1, and Schindler MT. This fixture line uses black rectangular, Kone M-Series-like buttons with red-LED illuminating halos. On the early Series 220 elevators, the vacuum fluorescent floor counters from the Vector fixtures continued to be used, but later, they were replaced by red-LED fixed character dot matrix floor counters. Around 1999, some elevators with Series 220 fixtures began using Kone's bell chimes (the down chime used two different pitches, creating a "hi-lo" effect), as well an updated Kone-style red LED floor indicator. The Series 220 were offered until 2006, when it was completely replaced with Kone's current KSS fixtures series.

A lot of YouTube elevator enthusiasts mistakenly refer to these fixtures as KSS 220 as the Series 220 era, but KSS did not come out until 2004.

Third Party Fixtures

As previously mentioned, Montgomery used CJ Anderson fixtures in its early years right up until the late 1960s when they started manufacturing their own fixtures. However, Montgomery continued to use third party fixtures as well as manufacturing their own; they used EPCO fixtures from around the 1970s until the mid 1980s, and then used Innovation during the Twinkie-M and Montgomery Kone eras, especially Innovation Universal and Security; the former was known as "Conventional Fixtures" in Montgomery catalogs. Innovation Universal was used as a replacement of their non-ADA A Series and Innovation Security was used as their "Vandal Resistant" fixtures.

Lists of Third Party Fixtures used on Montgomery elevators

CJ Anderson
- AN 10
Innovation
- Universal “Conventional”
- Security “Vandal Resistant”
- SELECT (Custom Made)
EPCO
- Circleline
- Flushline
- WS Haloline (very rarely)

List of elevator fixtures by manufacturers
Main topic	Elevator fixtures
Official fixtures by elevator companies	Amtech Reliable • Armor • Atlas (Northern CA) • Bennie Lifts • Boral • DEVE • Dong Yang • Dover • Elevadores Atlas • Elevators Pty. Ltd. • Evans Lifts • Express Evans • Express Lift • Fiam • Fujitec • GoldStar •GFC • Guangri • Hammond & Champness • Haughton • Haushahn • Hitachi • Hyundai • IFE • Indolift • Johns & Waygood • Kleemann • Kone (North America) • LG • Marryat & Scott • Mashiba • Mitsubishi Electric (North America) • Montgomery • MP • Orona • Otis (North America • South Korea/Otis Elevator Korea) • Payne • Pickerings Lifts • Sabiem • Schindler (North America) • Schlieren • Seaberg • Shanghai Mitsubishi • Sigma • Staley • Stannah • Thyman • Thyssen • thyssenkrupp (North America • Korean fixtures) • Toshiba • U.S. Elevator • Westinghouse • Xizi Otis/Otis Electric
Non-proprietary (generic) fixtures by elevator components companies	Adams • Buy Elevator Parts Co. • C.J. Anderson • CEA • CEHAM • Dewhurst (ERM) • DMG (MAD) • ELMI • EPCO • Everbright • GAL • Hissmekano • Hong Jiang • Hunter • Innovation Industries • Jinlix • Kinds • Kronenberg • Leadway Elevator Component • Lester Controls • LiSA • Mico Control • Monarch Control • Monitor • PTL • Salient • Schaëfer • Shanghai STEP • Sodimas • Tung Da • Vega
Unknown fixtures	For a list of unidentified fixtures, refer to this page‎‎.