List of Elevators Pty. Ltd. elevator fixtures

This is a list of elevator fixtures that have been used by Elevators Pty. Ltd., or commonly known as EPL KONE.

1970s

Flat square

These fixtures consists of white rounded square buttons which simply illuminates, and analog floor indicators with illuminating numbers.

1970s EPL hall station (Credit to YouTube user Jaymie Treadwell)

1970s EPL car station (Credit to YouTube user Jaymie Treadwell)

1970s EPL car station buttons (Credit to YouTube user Jaymie Treadwell)

F type

F buttons were buttons that possessed an ice cube shaped lens, similar to competing manufacturer Johns Perry's.

F type buttons with a G type Door Open button, Myer Chermside Service Lift.

1980s

G type

G type buttons succeeded the type F buttons starting in around 1977, and consisted of square buttons (with either white or black frame) with illuminating halo. Early installs used analogue resin indicators; later indicators in some late models were green VFD dot-matrix ones which resembled Montgomery Vector's LED font.

1980s EPL KONE call buttons (credit: Jaymie Treadwell).

1980s EPL KONE buttons (credit: Jaymie Treadwell).

1980s EPL car station. Buttons with black frame (Credit to YouTube user Jaymie Treadwell)

1980s EPL buttons with white frame.

Another EPL KONE white buttons with illuminating lamp on the center.

1980s EPL Kone COP with VFD dot matrix indicator. Note that the call buttons are the 90s variant, rare for EPLs.

EPIC MOTOR EPL KONE Bottom-drive Traction Elevator at Berry Square, North Sydney

1980s EPL KONE elevator at Berry Square car park, Sydney (credit: Jaymie Treadwell).

Black buttons

Starting in the late 1980s, most EPL KONE elevators were using black round buttons with illuminating halo (either green, orange, or red) and raised side. Floor indicators were normally green VFD dot-matrix which resembles Montgomery Vector display, though other colours such as blue or red were available.

Kone continued to use this design of fixtures after EPL's dissolution for a select few installs, in conjunction with their Traffic Master System until the late 1990s. These installs used a revised mechanism; the lens protrudes from the call button in an attempt to aid vision-impaired passengers, and the travel depth of the button is reduced and more clicky. The latest install known to use these fixtures was installed in 2000. Floor indicators used with TMS were either the yellow Kone ELD indicator or the Novel Elements LED dot matrix indicator.

1990s EPL KONE black buttons with red halo.

1990s EPL KONE green LED indicator

1990s EPL KONE black buttons with orange halo (credit: Jaymie Treadwell).

1990s EPL Kone analog floor indicator

1990s EPL Kone handicapped panel

1990s EPL Kone hall lanterns

1990s EPL Kone black buttons with green halo

EPL Black 90s buttons - different writing font.

Synergy 2000 indicators

These are green (or rarely, yellow) monochrome floor indicators with time and date displayed.

EPL KONE Synergy 2000 monochrome floor indicator (credit: Jaymie Treadwell).

EPL KONE Traction elevators at 71 Macquarie building, Circular Quay, Sydney

EPL KONE elevator with Synergy 2000 green monochrome indicator at 71 Macquarie building, Circular Quay, Sydney (credit: Jaymie Treadwell).

Rare yellow version of Synergy 2000.

Novel Elements and Salient

Some late model of EPL KONE elevators were using Kone's Novel Elements fixtures for the call buttons (either original or modernized) or Salient. Some lifts were even using Kone's yellow ELD indicator.

An example of a late model EPL Kone using Salient as seen at the Sydney Adventist Hospital.

A late model EPL Kone indicator with hall lanterns.

A late model EPL Kone lift using yellow ELD indicator.