Marshall Elevator was the oldest
elevator
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company in the
United States
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. It was founded in 1818 by John Marshall. Marshall & Son originally was a
Blacksmith
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, but in the 1840s, they started to produce elevators of all kinds. In 1942, they began to sell elevator products by the
Rotary Lift Company, which, in 1955, merged with other companies and changed their name to the Dover Elevator Division.
[{{cite web , url=http://marshallelevator.com/history_4.html , title=Archived copy , accessdate=2012-11-18 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121211062848/http://marshallelevator.com/history_4.html , archivedate=2012-12-11 ] In 1999, they became a reseller of ThyssenDover Elevators, the company that was formed after the merger of Dover Elevator and Thyssen Elevator. By 2001, they stopped installing ThyssenDover elevators, due to another name change to
ThyssenKrupp Elevator.
On July 26, 2011, after 193 years and nine generations, the family that owned Marshall Elevator sold the company to
Otis Elevator Company
Otis Worldwide Corporation (trade name, branded as the Otis Elevator Company, its former legal name) is an American company that develops, manufactures and markets elevators, escalators, moving walkways, and related equipment.
Based in Farming ...
. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. They stopped reselling ThyssenKrupp products due to ThyssenKrupp and Otis being competitors.
See also
*
List of elevator manufacturers
This is a list of companies that manufacture elevators.
Current elevator manufacturers
* Aichi small-elevator manufacturing corporation
* Doppler
* Fujitec
* Hitachi
* Hyundai Elevator
* Kone
* Mitsubishi Electric
* Otis Elevator Company ...
References
Elevator manufacturers