J. & E. Hall International is a British manufacturing company. In the vertical transport industry, the company manufactured passenger elevators, escalators as well as paternosters from 1880 until 1968. It also made commercial vehicles under the brand name "Hallfords". Today, J. & E. Hall only manufactures refrigeration units for commercial and industrial applications, and it is now a member of Daikin Group.
History[]
J. & E. Hall was founded in 1785. The company entered the elevator industry in 1880 when it produced a paternoster called "Cyclic Elevator". The company later expanded their elevator production when they bought Medway Safety Lift Company (founded in 1878) in 1925. In 1931, J. & E. Hall began making escalators (called as "moving staircases" at that time) under license from German elevator manufacturer Carl Flohr. In 1951, J. & E. Hall modernized the Babbacombe Cliff Railway, a funicular railway in Torquay, Devon commissioned in 1923 by Waygood-Otis.
J. & E. Hall continued producing elevators and escalators until 1968 when its elevator and escalator division was sold to Otis Elevator Company.
In 1968, J. & E. Hall's Canadian elevator and escalator division was bought by Hitachi.
Notable installations[]
Escalators - Canada (Hitachi)[]
Ontario[]
- Toronto Subway Station
Quebec[]
- Claude Robillard Sports Complex, Montreal (1975)
- Place Ville Marie, Montreal
- Phase 5 (1969)
- Jean Talon Tower, Montreal (1977)
Traction elevators - Canada[]
British Columbia[]
- Penticton Regional Hospital, Penticton (1951, modernized by TK)
Ontario[]
Quebec[]
- 1012 Mont-Royal Ave E, Montreal (1959)
- 266 Notre-Dame St W, Montreal (1982)
- 8080 Juliette St, Montreal (1970)
- 8081 Newman Blvd, Montreal (1970)
- 8160 Juliette St, Montreal (1969)
- 8161 Newman Blvd, Montreal (1969)
Traction elevators - Ireland[]
- Parliament Building of Northern Ireland
Traction elevators - New Zealand[]
- Thorndon Building, Wellington (modernized by Fiam since 1980s)
Traction elevators - Thailand[]
- Royal Palace, Bangkok
Traction elevators - United Kingdom[]
England[]
- 69 Harley St, London
- Crowngate Shopping Centre, Worcester
- Fairfield Halls Theatre, Croydon
- Former Allders Department Store, Croydon (escalator, store closed in 2013, fate of the escalator remains unknown)
- House of Commons, London
- Poole Hospital, Poole (1969, modernized by Aurora Lifts with Lester Controls since 2008)
- Redhill Railway Station, Surrey
- Redhill (refurbished by Schindler)
- Royal Opera House, London
- Covent Garden
- Stevenage Railway Station, Stevenage, Hertfordshire (modernized by Stannah Lifts)
Traction freights[]
Canada[]
- University of Toronto, Toronto
Trivia[]
- When Hitachi acquired J. & E. Hall's Canadian elevator division in the 1968, a few Hitachi escalators installed in Canada are branded as Hitachi J. & E. Hall.
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