General/Rotary Gated Hydraulic piston pump elevator @ Kirkwood Medical Building Kirkwood MO

This elevator is perhaps one of the most amazing Hydraulic elevators I have ever ridden. This elevator has a two stage piston pump hence the chugging noise and bouncy ride. Installed in 1958 Dover had already acquired Rotary elevator who installed this elevator so this could be classified as a general/rotary/dover elevator. This was an amazing find and if Streetcar1743 had not told me about this, I would have never known that this Doctor's office building I have driven by for years had this beautiful unmodernized gem from 1958 ALSO the motor on this thing is incredible. It sounds unlike anything I have ever heard before and going up is very bouncy, feels and sounds almost like some type of piston pump similar to an air compressor. I rode another Rotary Hydraulic elevator from 1952 (pre dover) and it had a motor that behaved and sounded exactly the same as this one.

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• Medical
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[gluse]

Going up, it sounds like a train chugging.

[dieselducy]

@gluse yeah, I am wondering if it is a piston pump as going up it bounces in time with that "chugging" sound.

[Streetcar1743]

Now here is a historical fact about this building. This was where I had my physical check-ups from birth to about 1983.

[TitsinkruppElevator]

HEY! You pressed the alarm! I have now downrated your video in respect of George Fiffy!

[Zeppelintroll69]

BURN IT DOWN!

[Zeppelintroll69]

I think dieselducy beat him self off inside dat elevator what you thing Sucka.

[NEXPAR]

I saw Streetcar's version of this video first and suspected it was a hydraulic when the elevator was going down quietly.

[elevatorclay]

AWESOME THATS AMAZING THE SOUND OF THE MOTOR WAS VERY STEADY AND PERFECT

[Balarick]

@dieselducy that would make sense. that "chugging" sound is different for an elevator.

[Balarick]

@Streetcar1743 nice of you to share that. now we know where you have been. for coastercubby classic leveling is fun to watch.

[Konekss370]

@an65001 oh still u might over load it

[an65001]

@Konekss370 Its a hydro.

[FranceHopper]

Wow. I think that might be a YouTube first. Definitely a very cool one.