41 years - "a good innings", shall we say! 

Thanks very much! This is what my channel is all about - contributing to the lift enthusiast community in a positive way by respectfully creating videos that other people enjoy. Love comments like these! Thanks for watching!

@@MichalM your welcome, i look forward to more videos.

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Thanks Asier! Glad you enjoyed it :) Thanks for watching!

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Thanks! I do like these lifts, and it's a shame they're being modded. Luckily there may be an opportunity for parts. If you want to see what the lifts will look like after the mod, keep an eye on my other channel, JMRT Lifts. I'll post a video on there for you once they've put the lifts back into service after modernisation. Thanks for watching!

I think this one was 11 layers lol, thanks, and thanks for watching!

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@@MichalM You're Welcome! By the way, I hit the bell for you.

@@metroelevators4619 Thanks!

@@MichalM You're Welcome!

These weren't original FYI, the original Express controllers were replaced in the 2000's.

@@MichalM Aye, the floor indicator gave it away haha. Still a shame :(

@@VintageLiftLad True. Luckily, the parts didn't go in the bin - they came home with me, so I have some nice Express lanterns at home, which I may do a video on in the future.

@@MichalM Oooh nice one, glad they didn't end up in the skip! I'd love to salvage the fixtures from the ones in lpool but I doubt I'll be there when/if the modernisation takes place, I've uploaded what I believe to be the last take of them working, well the right hand car at least (filmed last year)

You raise a really interesting point, and honestly, I have no idea. You may be able to tell that the button panel used to be to the right of the doors, which is where the speaker is now. Does this narrow it down at all? I think I know which square buttons you're referring to: are they the ones in mrmattandmrchay's firemans switch experiment take 2 video? They have a small red LED above the number. I shall take a look on the internet for some photos of the original lifts. Thanks for watching!

@@MichalM That is is a later variant of the same button that was used in the 1980s. I am referring to the original lantern version. It is a essentially a square version of the one mrmatt featured in his "Express lifts button" video where he pulls them apart. Bother the oval and square versions were use din NZ, but the Square one is much more common (or at least it is among surviving examples) - see example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m8eVb7KOQC8.html

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 Oh that's quite cool, I've seen those before in videos, but never in real life. To be honest you don't get many of those over here - but this could be a rare case where they have those buttons. This would make sense because the external arrows are just white (this is apparently quite rare), instead of red for one arrow and white for the other arrow. Will take a look soon.

@@the_alex_ellis_channel6923 Do you know from what years each fixtures were generally used to and from? I’m thinking maybe vandal resistant type with these, but would they use LED buttons in 1980? My second guess would be the classic original type, and maybe some of the last ones to use them.

@@Lift.Tracker I can't really say, as Express used some different fixtures in New Zealand to the UK. We never got the vandal resistant ones. They used the classic oval "1st generation" buttons over here until the 1970s, with the very last ones even being a light-up version! Then they switch to using the white buttons with lanterns behind, which they made in both Oval and Square, with the latter being most common. In the 1980s, they introduced an LED variant of the square buttons, with a small red LED at the top. They also introduced a totally different oval-shaped LED set of fixtures that were only used in the Asia-Pacific market. Express's New Zealand division was taken over by Schindler sometime in the late 80s or Early 90s, and is what has allowed Schindler to remain the most popular lift company in New Zealand ever since. Express was MASSIVE in New Zealand, especially in the 60s and 70s, when they were competing directly with OTIS, and may have even made it to No. 1 lift company at some point.

Oh nice - err do you mean the set which have had new doors fitted: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Qs4ArZV07Vk.html

@@MichalM no the other two

Yep will miss the old refurbished ones

@@canadawater4281 So the ones featured on this video?

@@canadawater4281 Indeed.

Thanks! Indeed it is a shame, but at least there's a chance to get some parts! Thanks for watching!

Agreed. I don't understand why there's a problem with using the manufacturers name to describe a lift.

@@MichalM People usually say the manufacturer and then say generic but I still agree with you.

@@EverydayEverything360 Agreed. I only use the Generic Term when its a Lift with a Logic that i don't know about.