A DERELICT LIFT with DOOR CLOSE on the outside?! +motor room

Used to work for hammond and champness as a lift engineer in the 80's/90's .Those call buttons were used mainly on the warden/ Windsor series of lifts in the 1980's and were very common. I've never seen a door close button on the outside architrave before though, must have been a feature that the client specified and wanted. The one floor travel warden hydraulic lifts were commonly used in elderly people homes and I know h+c installed a lot of them

Thanks for showing the schematic close up so we can work out the logic for ourselves! It's like a Sudoku for elevator geeks.

The editing quality in your videos are brilliant mate. You use bits of music that fit the scene, as well as keeping the video fresh and entertaining! 👍

I think those door close buttons might have been a requested special custom feature from whoever used this building. Maybe they had a reason for it, like beeing able to close the door quickly and not having to wait for door timer to close the door (safety reasons perhaps?). I have never seen that before. What I have seen before are up and down call buttons on single lift (instead of lift group).

Ah Hammond and Champness. Dad used to service these lifts which were mainly in old folks homes. They were a bugger as quite often the 'motor room' was a cupboard above the top floor of the lift. I remember being the slave that had to operate the thing while dad monitored it from above on a set of steps! Happy days.

Excellent video as always! At first I saw the landing doors I thought it was an OTIS until I realized it's actually H+C when you' show the circuit boards. That "door close button + call button outside" is a typical feature found in some older freight lift models where the user must close the doors after using the lift on the outside by pressing the door close button. Maybe this lift was a service lift? Also I've never seen a hydraulic lift with its motor room on the top floor before. Pretty interesting.

I wish that the lift still worked so you could have tested the close button

I went to Schindler elevator to get some parts, and they gave me a Adams call station with a call button and a door close button only. Even the people at Schindler had no idea what it was for, it did however come from a retirement home in Columbus. I can take some pictures of it if you would like.

I love the preheat light animation in your intro. Also, it's interesting to see an elevator with a door close button on the outside.

@mrmattandmrchay Maybe the door close button is there because there a kids (Multi Family Therapy) and if they annoy someone , they are just put in the lift and the doors get closed , to ensure they do not annoy anymore. Or if elderly people were in this building , it maybe used for putting them away , when they wanted to be helped , just to not hear them anymore and having your silence :)

Before I saw the company logo in the controller I could tell straight away who made it

I bet they had the door close button on there because they mainly used this elevator to carry cargo carts between the two floors and actually this might’ve been your last chance to see this because they’ve probably torn down this building by now

those PCB tracks are curved to stop the electrons falling off :)

I have seen a similar one in a commercial building, which was a hotel in Janpan in very long time ago. This outside-doorclose-button design is for maximizing the capacity of cargoes and operate without human inside, also prevent people from using it. The lift I have seen has NO floor buttons inside too. So in that case you put your stuff inside, people upstairs press the CALL button to let the lift bring it up. Once it has reached the level it will open its doors. This features prevents other people from using that lift , ie, missing second people to press the CALL and CLOSE the door from outside. The Lift's doors should remains open until someone has closed it from outside where it was stationed, and moved to up/down levels where it has been called. To open it again you just need to press the CALL button again . It is a very special design and there should be voice-calling box on the wall for people communicate between up&down stairs too.

Epic footage love how you can see the cobweb tho the glass window at the start shows how long that really been sat there wicked old lift tho thumbs up :)

that hammond and chapness lift pump looks pretty cool was there some hydraulic fluid in there? u could have opend the pump so we could see if there was hydraulic fluid spooky looking motor room too

I was thinking Hammond & Champness when I saw the buttons and doors, and it was!

I recognize some old PCBs in which the layout was done by hand. Those curvy and irregular traces are a telltale sign of that. Probably those were made in the 70's or early 80's.

Oh man the theme music you played made this look even more creepy

uh thats a door close button not a door open button