This community page was created to promote LOOMIS ARMORED CAR SERVICE in Canada (c1950-2000), and the employees who served, as well as supporting all armored car service providers globally. 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. 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.