The use of underground workings as locations for factories,
warehouses and other use is well established in various parts of
Missouri - including Kansas City, Columbia, and Springfield
Dave
>Hello
>
>Keith Ramsey wrote:
>>
>> There's a piece in today's "Western Daily Press" about a man from Holcombe,
>> Somerset, who has a large collection of elderly cars and motorcycles which
>> are kept underground at Blackpool colliery and are reached by a hydraulic
>> platform which descends the pit shaft.
>>
>> I've never heard of this pit, and storing cars in an old colliery sounds a
>> bit impractical to say the least. Does anyone know anything else about this?
>
>my first thought was 'bullshit', but ...
>
>... I am just archiving all my photographs taken during the last 20 years,
>and came accross the following picture, I took in 1992 in Kaylor,
>Pennsylvania:
>http://www.hfinster.de/tmp/kaylor-92.jpg
>
>The advertisement reads:
>
>Underground Storage
>As low as 65$ per season
>Security, Eliminates Winterizing, Climate Controlled
>Boats, Campers, Vans, Antique Cars, Trucks
>
>So, no bullshit ?-)
>
>
>Greetings
>
>Harald
>
>--
>Dr.-Ing. Harald Finster / Aachen Germany
>http://www.finster-stahlart.de industrial history and architecture
>http://www.astrid-aix.de gallery: watercolours and oil paintings
--
David A. Summers
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Adjunct Professor of Nuclear Engineering
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University of Missouri-Rolla,
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