There were fifteen Otis electric traction elevators in the completed building, and one electric-drum elevator, for a total of sixteen elevators. The tower portion had nine elevators, eight of which ran from the lobby. Four were "local" elevators making all stops between the lobby and the 13th floor, two continued down to the basement. Four "express" elevators ran from the lobby to the upper floors; three of them terminated at the 35th floor and the fourth at the 40th floor. Another "shuttle" elevator served only the 35th through 38th floors. The elevators could carry loads of up to and could travel from the lobby to the top floor at , faster than any other elevator then in existence.