A vintage Pickerings lift!!! WHAT YEAR?

Don't forget to stay until the end of the video ;) LOL
You probably don't know that I "do" go lift hunting occasionally but I never seem to find anything worth uploading... until today!
It's an original Pickerings lift without inner door.
I need help with the installation date of this lift as I forgot to look for a date - 50s, 60s?
The landing call buttons are not much more than light switches, so dedicated lift call buttons were probably not available? The interior buttons don't match, so I'm wondering whether these have been replaced at some stage.
The only mod was a photo electric beam across the front of the lift, which doesn't work. Neither does the cab light. That doesn't matter though as I always carry a torch with me.
Well, the mrmattandmrchay cameras definitely started recording today and this is what I filmed...

[@Volkswarren]

oh wow so nice and the best part NO INNER DOORS YAY!!!!!!

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

Oooooh what a beauty! Can't wait to see what's in store for the next video!

[@thewildeeper]

What a great little lift! I really like those unique call buttons. "Do frogs have watertight butts?" LOL!

[@powerhitter]

Woo. Thought I was gonna have to suffer from chronic curiosity of Not being able to see the motor room. Glad you pulled it off :)

[@brandonwilliams6852]

I can't wait to see part 2! What an awesome discovery!

[@SAMIEWALLFORD756]

WOW! That is amazing for this elevator, what a find!

[@carterucm]

Flats [16] 14 15... someone decided against flat 13 after they made the plate then! Great vid as ever.

[@viktoriadevenyik]

This reminds me of Budapest, where I live, the functionalist apartments built during the 60's (also, where I live)

[@neaelevator]

Awesome find! A lot of good those sensors were. LOL

[@stevetomkins2919]

I’ve worked on lifts 50 years older than that

[@alloria]

Awesome!

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

Ooh and it may be time to celebrate the lack of inner doors by singing the Pickerings no inner doors song if there was one!

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Knuckles the Echidna Uhmmm.... I'd like to hear you sing it, so why not upload it to your channel??! HAHA just joking, please don't do it :D

[@damientyler5581]

ugh.. i wish we had more awesome lifts like this where I live.. i'm so jealous.. :(

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Damien Tyler I never knew these lifts still existed, I was surprised to find this.

[@miaugato93]

mrmattandmrchay lifts like this are what i was talking about in my question to the Q&A if you remember. Don't worry, i'll wait my turn, you don't need to answer now ;)

[@mrmattandmrchay]

Tiago Costa Yes, I do remember, and I have already recorded my answers! However I need to make an adjustment to your answer now haha!

[@miaugato93]

Damien Tyler and to think i have loads of these where i live from all sorts of decades. Apparently these types of lifts were the only thing installed to residential buildings (and very rarely commercial buildings too) in my country up to 1995 thereabouts. From national brands that don't exist anymore up to Otis and Schindler, we have them all. some of them are in my channel. but i warn the camera is not very good. Some Lisbon buildings even have those very very old scissor gate lifts from anywhere between the 20's and the mid 50's...i don't have those in my town but if you search you may find.

[@dngunder]

hey mate, i got a question. do you make 60fps videos now? if so, how do you save vdeos in pinnacle with 60fps?

[@PostTower]

beautiful awesome elevator!

[@ELPaso1990TX]

You can't seem to access the interlock from inside the lift to open the outer doors. What kind of key would a lift like this use?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

+ELPaso1990TX I don't remember seeing any method to open the outer doors from the outside, without the lift present either. Maybe the lift is so old that these were introduced at a later date.

[@MichalM]

@FlashyDucy Elevator Productions Caps?

[@gabrielcoyle3067]

Does the lift still exist?

[@salifrtsalifrt3817]

where is the part 2

[@funcik1]

GoPro cam?

[@mrmattandmrchay]

funcik1 Nope, Innovv C2 with Sony WX350 side by side filming the same thing, but using only the WX350 microphone. I'm giving away my secrets now ;)

[@express777100]

1960s econolift.

[@lewislovesgaming2313]

I have got stuck in a elevator

[@DANEBLUEGNOME]

This lift is terrible without light, is could be scare me at it. That is no wonder inside the lift, no way to ride it. I'm suggust you this, posed be fixtures the light on this lift. Is startled me this... Is freaking me out this is way to looks so dark inside the lift is!