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The undocumented Palitoy warehouse, “My Granddad's factory”. Palitoy called it, The Finished Goods Warehouse
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<blockquote data-quote="Ian_C" data-source="post: 365880" data-attributes="member: 6115"><p>Fascinating read, and to be related to someone who had a connection to part of the process must be a thrill.</p><p></p><p>I'm a construction plumber, so hopefully I can help with a couple of your "oddities".</p><p></p><p>The piping around the building would have been for one of a couple of different possible reasons. My initial thought would have been fire prevention, as with that much plastic inside, they'd need access to significant amounts of water quickly in the event of a fire. However, and maybe I misread this, but they actually did some injection molding there? In that case, the water lines were most likely cooling systems for the machines themselves. I also have a background in factory work, and injection molding machines go through an insane amount of water to prevent overheating and also for spraying down the dies in between shots.</p><p></p><p>As for those mystery fire doors, many blueprints I see include several unfinished portions, "for future use". Chances are, it would be easier to install doors upon initial construction than to go back at a later date and modify the building, and it's possible there were discussions about having a second floor added in at some point. Probably for offices and the like. It would be easy to add in the structure for a second floor later on, so the doors were probably added in ahead of time in anticipation of such a modification. There would have been a staircase outside, which would not have had to be built until the second floor was added.</p><p></p><p>Those are both assumptions, but knowing construction, that's my best educated guess to explain those mysterious oddities you described.</p><p></p><p>Oh, and inground heating for a warehouse! :shock: That is expensive stuff, a pain to install, and amazing it would be used in a warehouse setting. We have harsher winters here in Canada than over there, and to date I've only ever worked on infloor heating once for a medical research lab, and heard about it as a high end option for rich people's houses. </p><p></p><p>Cheers!</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ian_C, post: 365880, member: 6115"] Fascinating read, and to be related to someone who had a connection to part of the process must be a thrill. I'm a construction plumber, so hopefully I can help with a couple of your "oddities". The piping around the building would have been for one of a couple of different possible reasons. My initial thought would have been fire prevention, as with that much plastic inside, they'd need access to significant amounts of water quickly in the event of a fire. However, and maybe I misread this, but they actually did some injection molding there? In that case, the water lines were most likely cooling systems for the machines themselves. I also have a background in factory work, and injection molding machines go through an insane amount of water to prevent overheating and also for spraying down the dies in between shots. As for those mystery fire doors, many blueprints I see include several unfinished portions, "for future use". Chances are, it would be easier to install doors upon initial construction than to go back at a later date and modify the building, and it's possible there were discussions about having a second floor added in at some point. Probably for offices and the like. It would be easy to add in the structure for a second floor later on, so the doors were probably added in ahead of time in anticipation of such a modification. There would have been a staircase outside, which would not have had to be built until the second floor was added. Those are both assumptions, but knowing construction, that's my best educated guess to explain those mysterious oddities you described. Oh, and inground heating for a warehouse! :shock: That is expensive stuff, a pain to install, and amazing it would be used in a warehouse setting. We have harsher winters here in Canada than over there, and to date I've only ever worked on infloor heating once for a medical research lab, and heard about it as a high end option for rich people's houses. Cheers! Ian [/QUOTE]
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