Bennie Lift Company (John Bennie)
Bennie lifts (Founded by John Bennie) started makeing lifts in the 1900s?
Bennie made lifts until 1986 when they got taken over by Kone. They made a lot of lifts in tower blocks around London.
Here is the history of Bennie lifts...
1900s
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1930s
Here is a 1930s Bennie. This lift uses the same buttons as many other lift companies at the time.
In 1930 George Bennie (Someone else from the Bennie family) made a monorail prototype
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1950s
Here is a 1950s style Bennie. This lift also uses the same buttons as many other lift companies at the time.
1960s & 1970s
Bennie's 1960s/70s lifts were very sucsessfull, there are still loads of them about. Loads of flats in London have 1960s/70s Bennie lifts.
1980s
In the 1980s Bennie started to go abit generic. Their tower block lifts were rather plain looking. they got taken over by Kone in 1986.
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