Abby Hatcher District

Abby Hatcher District (Spanish: Distrito de Abby Hatcher; Swedish: Abby Hatcher-distriktet) is a group of streets and buildings in Avalor City's Central Buisness District. Abby Hatcher District has 800 buildings. All streets within the district do not have names, but buildings have numbers. The Abby Hatcher District was founded in 1914 to help growing populations in Avalor, it was named for Abigail Neuth, a British woman who explored Avalor during the 1890s (in heaven since 1951).

For all Abby Hatcher District's buildings, the ground floor is zero (0) (European style) or one (1) (North American style). Because many of Abby Hatcher District's buildings were built between 1960 and 1985, number one is the most common designation for ground floor.

1914-1929
Since all of these buildings built from the era were remodelled, design and structure of Abby Hatcher District buildings from 1914 to 1929 are little known.

1929-1952
From 1929 to 1952, all Abby Hatcher District buildings were between three and five storeys tall. It had only stairs.

1952-1959
From 1952, Abby Hatcher District Council began to remodel all of buildings built during World War I into five- to eleven-storey block of flats. Schindler supplied the lifts at Abby Hatcher District's buildings built in this era. Schindler lifts mainly served according to the stopping pattern:


 * all floors for five- to six-storey buildings
 * 1, 4 and 7 for seven-storey buildings
 * 1, 2, 7 and 8 for eight-storey buildings
 * 1, 3, 6 and 9 for nine-storey buildings
 * 1, 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 for ten-storey buildings
 * 1, 5, 7, 9 and 11 for eleven-storey buildings

Schindler
Schindler used black buttons in the 1950s. These were quite simple fixtures, with black buttons without illumination. Floor numbers are engraved on the panel next to the buttons. The lifts were equipped with an analogue indicator above the doors. The typical lift's maximum capacity in this era was 6 persons/475 kilograms load.

1960s
Abby Hatcher District buildings built in this era typically have between eight and thirteen floors, however from the late 1960s, fourteen- to sixteen-storey buildings began to be common. Johns Perry and OTIS began supplying lifts by that time. For eight-, nine- and ten-storey buildings, there are two lifts, one for even, and one for odd. For eleven- to sixteen-storey buildings, there can be one or two lifts, stopping at floors according to the table below. Because the lifts typically stop at selective floors in some buildings, going upstairs or downstairs may be required after taking a lift.

Fixtures guide
The typical lift's maximum capacity in this era was 9 persons/675 kilograms load.

Johns Perry
Johns & Waygood used clear buttons that were either square or round buttons. The square buttons were shaped like Schindler R-Series buttons. The door control and alarm buttons are small black buttons. Door control buttons were simply labelled as "O" and "C" for open and close respectively. Indicators are simple floor counters with illuminating numbers and triangle arrows.

OTIS
OTIS uses black buttons in the 1960s. Indicators are just simply Lexan, with illuminating numbers.

Schindler
Schindler lifts of the era typically used pop-out buttons. Above the car doors is an indicator, which is analogue display. There is no door close button.

Sabiem
Sabiem lifts of the era have a green or red indicator above the doors.

1970s
As population in Avalor City increased, the typical number of storeys in Abby Hatcher District's buildings became between 5 and 21. Lifts may stop at every floor or at selected floors. If the number of floors is between 13 and 21, the lifts stop at 1, 3, 6, 11 and 13 or 13-[14-21].

EPL joined Abby Hatcher District to install lifts with white buttons. Indicator font was different. Mitsubishi began installing lifts at the Abby Hatcher District in 1977. One year later, KONE joined the installation.

Fixtures guide
The typical lift's maximum capacity in this era was 11 persons/845 kilograms load.

Johns Perry, OTIS
Same as the 1960s.

Schindler
Square R-Series buttons are used in the lifts of the buildings of Abby Hatcher District. Indicators appear above doors which are illuminating numbers on a black background, and the door close button became available.

Mitsubishi Elepet
Mitsubishi Elepet lifts have white buttons that are similar to Westinghouse AE buttons. Indicators are illuminating numbers on a black background, or simply cut-out numbers illuminating.

KONE
All KONE lifts of this era have white plastic illuminating buttons. Indicators are illuminating squares.

EPL
When EPL joined Abby Hatcher District to install lifts, white square buttons were used and

Westinghouse/Abby Hatcher District Lift Company
Around 1976, Abby Hatcher District Lift Company (Spanish: Empresa de Ascensores del Distrito de Abby Hatcher S.A.; Swedish: Abby Hatcher Distriktshissföretag AB) was founded. Abby Hatcher District Lift Company made lifts in an agreement with Westinghouse using AE-series buttons. In 1987, the partnership stopped and Abby Hatcher District Lift Company made lifts with Dewhurst fixtures.

1980s
Starting at this era, Dewhurst became the prominent fixture for all Abby Hatcher District lifts, with the exception of Johns Perry, Mitsubishi and Dover, which used their own fixtures. The typical number of storeys in Abby Hatcher District's buildings of this era became between 10 and 30. By the mid-1980s, Abby Hatcher District buildings started floor numbering at 0 instead of 1.

Johns Perry
Same as the 1970s. Johns Perry was acquired by Boral Limited in 1986.

Schindler, OTIS, KONE, Isralift, Sabiem
Schindler, OTIS, KONE, Isralift and Sabiem lifts of Abby Hatcher District have Dewhurst US81 non-braille buttons. Indicators are red dot-matrix displays. Very few KONE lifts use Dewhurst US81 braille buttons, and very few Schindlers are using Dewhurst US81 braille buttons or Schindler M-Series buttons. Schindler M-Series buttons were used until 1988 when Schindler's contract to install lifts at the Abby Hatcher District became revoked.

Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi uses black buttons for the lifts, with digital segments as indicators. On some refurbished lifts, an Orona dot matrix indicator replaces the Mitsubishi indicator.

Express
Express lifts primarily used lozenge buttons throughout the 1980s.

Fujitec
From 1987, Fujitec used Dewhurst US81 stainless steel buttons for their lifts. There only two 1980s Fujitec lifts that used Dewhurst US81 braille, all built in 1987. Indicators were completely analogue before 1986. Analogue indicators of most lifts in Abby Hatcher District buildings are dead and an Orona LED indicator was placed above the dead analogue indicator.

Abby Hatcher District Lift Company
During the 1980s, Abby Hatcher District Lift Company used a lot of Dewhurst US81 braille buttons.

Dover
Dover Traditional fixtures and indicators are used for lifts of Abby Hatcher District installed in this era.

1990s
Beginning in the 1990s, most lifts were standardised to feature the following features: rectangular cabs, Dewhurst, Schaefer, Salient or Adams fixtures, automated voices and door closing beeps (depending on manufacturer). The typical capacities of the era are either 10 persons/750 kilograms or 13 persons/1000 kilograms.

Abby Hatcher District Lift Company originated the idea of three indicators above doors, the left being the floor indicator, the middle being the progress bar for percentage to reach the desired floor and the right being the current date in both Spanish and Swedish. All are red LED dot-matrix and are high-density. The first lift to use the current 'three indicators' display is a Toshiba lift installed in 1994 at Building 392.

Abby Hatcher District Lift Company
Lifts installed by Abby Hatcher District Lift Company mostly used Adams Designer or Salient buttons.

KONE, Isralift
KONE and Isralift lifts of Abby Hatcher District have Dewhurst US81 braille buttons.

Express
Dewhurst US81 with braille is the most widely used fixture for Express lifts installed in the Abby Hatcher District. Salient buttons were also used but quite rare.

Fujitec
Fujitec mainly used Dewhurst US81 with braille for lifts in the Abby Hatcher District.

EPL/EPL-KONE
EPL or EPL-KONE uses black buttons with a red illuminating halo for lifts in the Abby Hatcher District.

Toshiba
Toshiba lifts in Abby Hatcher District used Adams Designer buttons. This is the first lift manufacturer to use Abby Hatcher District Lift Company's standardised 'three indicators' display.

Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi lifts of Abby Hatcher District used the same buttons as the Mitsubishi lifts used in the United States. In Avalor, this is widely known by lift enthusiasts as "Mitsubishi Abby Hatcher Buttons" because these fixtures are only found in the Abby Hatcher District. Indicator used is 'three indicators' by the Abby Hatcher District Lift Company.

Motala Hissar
Motala Hissar primarily used Dewhurst US81 with braille.

Abby Hatcher District Lift Company
Today, Abby Hatcher District Lift Company uses MAD-like fixtures similar to the ones found in ThyssenKrupp Signa4 lifts in the USA.

Fujitec
Fujitec lifts installed in the Abby Hatcher District since 2014 have Achille or Italo buttons (square push buttons with braille) made by Vega Srl in Italy, as well as the "Three Indicators" display supplied by Abby Hatcher District Lift Company.

Fujitec lifts installed in the Abby Hatcher District before 2014 have Dewhurst US91, Dewhurst-like buttons, Schaefer MT42 (with braille) or Adams Designer fixtures.

Refurbished lifts
The refurbished lifts of Abby Hatcher District use generic fixtures supplied by Shanghai STEP and floor indicators supplied by Orona and distributed by Abby Hatcher District Lift Company's parts division.

Refurbished 1980s Fujitec lifts
These lifts are refurbished with Shanghai STEP PB26 or EB310 buttons and Orona LED dot-matrix indicators supplied by the Abby Hatcher District Lift Company's parts division.

Refurbished 1960s Johns Perry lifts
Refurbished Abby Hatcher District's Johns Perry lifts of this typical era have Shanghai STEP EB310 or PB28 buttons, and Orona LED dot-matrix indicators supplied by the Abby Hatcher District Lift Company's parts division.