 Dover continued to expand its elevator division throughout the 1960s and 1970s with the purchases of Moody & Rowe, Burch, Turnbull, Burlington, Hammond & Champness, Louisiana Elevator, and W.W. Moore.Ultimately, Dover sold its elevator business in 1999 to Thyssen AG for $1.1 billion.Dover Elevator had a pretax operating profit of $93 million in 1997 and the sale was mutually beneficial