Leominster: ThyssenKrupp Hydraulic Elevator Revisit @ May A. Gallagher Building

We ride the ThyssenKrupp Hydraulic Elevator, in a little more detail, in the former May A. Gallagher Junior High School, Leominster, Massachusetts.
I also give you a little more detailed tour (albeit with limitations, being a municipal building), including what was where the elevator is, and on the opposite doorways.
You also get to see why the thrid floor is considered "Off-Limits".
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BUILDING SPECIFICS:

ELEVATOR PLACEMENT GUIDE:
(B) Edge of Boy's Cafeteria
(1) North entry to gym's stadium seating
(2) North entry to Auditorium
(3) Next to stairs to stage (Auditorium)

Side opposite (South Entry)
Same as above. Currently, fire exit for Leominster District Court, which housed the common areas above.

WOOD! Thought this was steel-framed. The floors are concrete-covered (typical for steel construction), and there was a steel frame exposed in the former Gym. The Gym/Auditorium might be the only steel-framed part of the building.

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[georgef551]

@suzzex

Funny thing is, it's been working fine since. It was always failing as a "Dover".

[suzzex]

@georgef551 but there is the possibility that TKE installed this. Me personally, I think this was installed during the ThyssenDover era, since you said 2001, and ThyssenKrupp came back whenever and swapped logos, which is very, very common for them to do. Kinda like a lazy Kruppy mod.

[suzzex]

@georgef551 Finally in 2001, TKE dropped Thyssen and dropped Dover and they officially became ThyssenKrupp elevator. Occasionally, you get weird elevators like this where they were ordered in the late 1990's from Dover, and if it takes a while to install ThyssenKrupp would have to take the job over. (Sometimes they change the Dover logo, sometimes they don't. It's hit or miss.) In all reality, this is a Dover, and there is no denying that, since it has a bumper and TKE never used bumpers,

[suzzex]

@georgef551 Like pnwelevator said, it could have even been installed by Dover. The buyout started in 1997, and the official Thyssen and Dover merge was in 1999. From 1999-2001, the company was known as "ThyssenDover", so the elevator was labeled "Dover", but it was really a hybrid of Dover and Thyssen equipment. (That's why the controller were different, since they used TAC controllers) Then in 2000, ThyssenKrupp was formed, so ThyssenDover was controlled by TKE after 2000...

[georgef551]

@suzzex

Yeah, Dover parts, but it was under TK's rule.

Would've liked to see an Otis in there, if the city wasn't in-bed with Dover/TK

[suzzex]

@georgef551 It may have been in 2001, but in 2001 it was still Dover. Dover was not gone until 2001.

[georgef551]

@pnwelevator

Hmmmm. Never noticed it.

I wonder if the Dover install was a phase-in? Takeovers usually take time.

[pnwelevator]

@georgef551 The shaft was blue, I saw a glimpse of it.

[georgef551]

@pnwelevator

This was a 2001 install, because the elevator wasn't there when I first walked through in late 2000.

(Remembering Junior High life that I had started there, 25 years ago, at that point in time.)

I never really looked at the shaft. There's no light in there at all (except the vent).

[pnwelevator]

That's a late 90's style Dover, TK probably replaced the label on the indicator. a TK shaft would be black, A Dover shaft as we know is BLUE!!