Loomis Armored Car Service - Canada

at Blakely RPO Box 68003, Hamilton , L8M 3M7 Canada

1. Organization

This community page was created to promote LOOMIS ARMORED CAR SERVICE in Canada (c1950-2000), and the people and events associated with the company over the years. Comments, discussions and photographs for posterity and nostalgia welcomed.

Description

LOOMIS ARMORED CAR SERVICE (LACS) CANADA In 1905, Lee Loomis founded the Cleary Creek Commercial Company. By using a dog sled, he supplied Alaskan miners with daily commodities and equipment and returned with gold. In 1925 he started Loomis Armored Car Service. At a cost of $ 8000, he produced and put into operation the very first custom made armored secure transportation vehicle later called ‘Old Number One’. The company expanded its business in the western parts of the USA and Canada. In 1934, Erik Philip-Sorensen founded the Swedish security company ‘Helsingborgs Nattvakt’ later becoming Securitas in 1972. In the late 1980s, Securitas launched an international expansion, including acquisitions, and in 1999, entered the North American market as Group 4 Securicor (also known as G4S). Mayne Nickless was founded as a parcels company in 1886 by John Mayne and Enoch Nickless in Melbourne, Australia to provide parcel deliveries by horse and cart. During the 1970's and 1980's Mayne Nickless expanded rapidly becoming a giant diversified multinational. Its prime areas of operations during the 1980's and early 1990's were freight/transport, security and telecommunications/computing as well as a number of other projects. In 1979, after acquiring Wells Fargo Armored in Canada, the Loomis family decided to sell the Loomis Corporation. The following years were turbulent and the Loomis Corporation went through major changes, several acquisitions and takeovers such as by Mayne-Nickless and eventually, by Securicor in 2001, thus ending LACS presence in Canada.

General Info

Since Loomis Armored Service Canada no longer exists, there is no contact information available for employment opportunities and other corporate follow-up. However, persons interested in an armored career should contact a new Loomis International in Canada since 2014 at http://www.loomis-international.com/contact-us-2/. Other options to consider is contacting the recruitment center at a Canadian Bank or another armored car service such as G4S, GardaWorld or Brinks. The Site Host can be contacted within the discussion pages, or at the email provided below.

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Summary

Loomis Armored Car Service - Canada is Hamilton based place and this enity listed in Organization category. Located at Blakely RPO Box 68003 ON L8M 3M7.