| 1. Elevator factory: Office rooms |
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Valmet (before 1951 Valtion Metallitehtaat) was a group formed of state's factories producing machines for war reparations. Name was kept the same after all war reparations had been delivered. |
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Best time to be here would have been some time earlier. Everything suitable for recycling had been ripped away. |
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Narrow and high windows like the one here are distinctive to all older buildings at the factory area. |
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This great piece of air circulation system with futuristic design was not wanted for new use. |
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Fuse cabins had glass doors to ease finding the burned one. Functionalism at its best. |
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Help Valmet find its way through the labyrinth! |
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This building was finished in 1933, originally for military use. Later the instrument unit of Valmet, whose products were meters and gauges moved in, and around 1969 the elevator business. |
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A less typical yard view with a whole lot of machine bodies. Like the blue container's text reads, the factory's name was extremely Finnish Sisu for some time before its ownership changed, again. |
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The phenomena which seems to happen in about every place that's interesting. |
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Warning! The New watching Eye of spare parts! What's behind this text is unclear, but before left cold, this building has factually served spare part functions of the terminal machine factory. |
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The office part was an extension to the building, built 1952. |
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An entire, unbroken glass tile wall could be found from the staircase to the three-storey part of the building. |
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Last function of the building was to serve spare parts sales of Valmet machines in 1980's and early 1990's. A profitable business.. |
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For those who don't know.. the 41st side. |
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Another floor, same feeling. |
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Bottle of hydrogen superoxide in an empty space. |
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Offices. |
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The meter is own product of Valmet but it seemed to show Fahrenheit scale. It was warm, not hot outside. |
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Ehm.. Was the electrician maybe a bit drunk when fitting this? The edge of tiles is straight. |
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Rather useless stairs. |
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No smoking area. |
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This business operates at a nearby site still today (with a different name), but its future doesn't probably differ from what will happen to the aircraft factory. |
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Cordita, a choice of many professionals. |
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Unfortunately the picture above was missing so we will never know what this was about. |
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Attic was partially reserved for attic-like chicken grill storages, partially for normal rooms. |
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Hey, curtains. |
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Access to the dark side af the attic. |
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These seemed to have been personal storages of some of the employees - higher ranking such, perhaps? |
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Access to blinding light from the attic. |
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Exotic wooden thingie in a dark corner. |
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From here choices are: A lab (left) or a lab (right) or a small room (straight forward). |