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3. Elevator factory: Basement and beyond

	Access to the basement went through a door highly similar to those in old lifts - how else, since the lift factory was here.
	This basement held atleast rooms of the carpenters. Storaging must have been the main use.
	Later, the place has served recently much spoken about workplace gymnastics. Results of a bunch of men written here tell, that on average they were physically quite well fit.
	This kind of lamps were around in many rooms, here still attached to the right place. Very nice design.
	rehti kasti, no doubt.
	To dressing rooms - absolutely forbidden place to hang at during work time.
	Dressrooms held hundreds of cabinets - and this was only one building in the area.
	These stainless spouts were meant for washing water, despite what they look like.
	The best find of the visit introduces a most interesting interview of Loni Sanders. She tells, for example, that deep inside she's a housewife type.
	Gu(a)rd, turn the lights on at 4.
	Main switch was located in a dedicated room with some missing transformers.
	This small room was the realm of the one who cut valmet and other texts to cardboard.
	Main entrance in Eastern end.
	Leaving, now at a loading platform in the middle of the building.
	A look to West..
	And a look to East. It was quite amount of timber that had been ripped from the place already.
	Here's an overview to the condemned factory building. Large machine bodies waiting for transportation to somewhere in the world fill most of the yard.
	Newer assembly halls have embedded to old ones to form a thick industrial area.
	The "big three" of machine constructioners in Tampere have done very close cooperation especially in railroad industry, so Tampella's vocational school for to-be-metalmen can now be found from Valmet's area - even after Tampella no longer exists.
	Second hand machine, maybe?
	Guarded by Special guarding so beware.
	The factory has produced lots of rolling stock to Finland. For example the famous models Dm7 and Dm8/Dm9 all came from here. They naturally needed railway to transport the finished products away. A point with oldskool circular signal reminds of those days.
	Today you won't get further than this on steel wheels. The blind track's rails were removed just before the Millennium, possibly due to their incompatibility with IT-Tampere of 2000's.