The manufacturer is Rundfunk- und Fernmelde-Technik- a German firm started in 1946. They made everything form t.v.'s to teletypes.

That or a cart designed to hold sterno cans for heating food.

This place is just amazing looking, reminds me of the old pabst home in Milwaukee a little, yet that was no where near this scale. A truly modenish castle.

Depending on when the bunker was built it may have been used for any number of things. The out area reminds me of some of the tank repair, maintenance, and storage structures you see, but up until WWI cavalry was still a very strong part of many armies.

In the left of the image it looks as though part of the wall caved in was this a bricked in doorway? Do you now if this room was re-purposed when the building was occupied by soldiers?

I'm surprised the supreme leader of Russia let them paint him bald. If it were me and I was going for total dictatorial tyranny I'd have a full, thick head of hair.

anyone for a cook out?

Shades of the Cask of Amontillado

Devin it looks like a dc voltage meter and was probably for a back up generator. The push button on the front would be to test the generator charge when the power for the generator is off. This would let you know that the generator is holding a charge and ready when needed. You can take a guess on the age as the out box is made of wood. I could tell you more but I can't read the fine print on it

Mr. Motts, this actually may have been used for a training room. We used to have a room like this in the facility I worked at. Students and a teacher or supervisor would be in the other room and wiring for EEG, EKG, or other systems was synced and run into the office behind so that a second set of eyes could monitor the patient while treatment was being done. Sometimes the students would be the ones rendering the treatment depending on how advanced they were and the system inside the office was used to make sure everything was going ok.

The history of ametek can be found here http://www.fundinguniv...Company-History.html . Interestingly the American Machine and Metals, Inc in E. Moline, Ill. (which was later renamed Ametek) is also listed as a Department of Energy legacy site where nuclear remediation was done.

It's such a shame they let this place fall apart. Thanks for the pictures, the place is amazing and the shots are good as ever.

The round holes in the end of some of these were actually for turning them (notable the pieces with 2 offset holes) ... image a giant socket but instead of a wrench you would plug a pipe in and twist the whole section., not that it makes them any smaller or lighter. I am curious if you can say where the floor vent on the left went through too.

ok 3rd post ... I guess the brick building at the Cramp ship yard I named was taken down in Jan of this year to make way for a highway interchange...

Sorry .. IP Morris was bought by Cramp and CO in 1891 and closed in 1927 - The site reopened for some time in 1941 but I don't see a final closure date.

Very cool, the manufacturers of the valve system on this are the Morris family of renown for the Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania. The historic building site where IP Morris built ship parts for the William Cramp Ship Co. (before Cramp bought out the parts making) in Pennsylvania is slated for demolition soon and the company closed in .

I vote on this one for a desktop theme ... don't think it works that way, but the juxtaposition of the industrial metal against stone is awesome. It makes me think of the Parthenon if it had generators and the ability to make power.

There's no ducks but I bet there is some Canadian geese ... oh wait you mean physically huh ...

This just makes me want to post 8 is great ...

The dot is really a very sophisticated survailance system for the canadians ... they really would appreciate if you would consider not breaking the rules or they may ask you very sternly not to break them again.

This spool makes me think of the tires on the old terex earth mover machines we saw all the time when I was a kid. We had a smaller one (only like 3 ft in diameter as opposed to some of the biggest that were closer to double that or more) in the yard we had filled with sand for a sand box, It's hard to image the sheer size of that spool when you look at it. That cable looks like it has to be a good 5-6 inches in diameter just based on the size of the spool. This seems much larger than your normal transmission line in diameter so these probably ran from the turbine to transmission lines or to a stepup transformer before it's sent out on the line to be transmitted.

lol I work at a non-profit clinic and knew someone who broke into a garage of a home with people there, stole a laddr, took the ladder next door to an occupied home and proceeded tp steal the aluminium gutters off the neighbors house. We also had a bunch of people that were exposed to vaproized sulfiric or hydrocholoric acid from trying to eat the patina off copper to make the metal look new, so I don't put anything past people anymore. If there is a cent to be made someone will try it

I think it would be awesome to make a building out of the corner stones and placards from old buildings that are being torn down.

Than that is definitely a great find, I'm kind of shocked no one has stolen them.

Loucie,

Looks like a steel top mixer maybe? The side piece on the left looks like a broken over spill handle.