Armstrong Siddeley made British cars, aircraft engines, and diesel engines, until they went out of business in 1960, so that's really interesting. Quite a truly fascinating find. The gap between the mountain and the building is necessary to prevent moisture build-up inside, and provide access to pipes etc, and to provide a Buffer Zone for air pressure flow around and through the complex. It's actually amazing it seems someone is still checking in on the place. Really a fantastic little piece of history. Great work team! Cheers!
Great addition to the first segment. They did a lot of drilling and blasting since there is around 12m between the floor levels. Ah the window to nowhere, they are psychological stability, the wall past the window would have had a large picture that may have been lit during "daylight hours". Crews living underground for a week could become time disoriented. Saw this in our missile complexes. The brass unit on the generator is more then likely an oiler for the pistons. I noticed a tag on the top of the generator is you ever get back it will give you all the information. I would say the place was the complex is late 50's early 60's, the screw-in fuses in most modern countries new construction after mid 60's were breakers. There being a walk way all around the rooms doesn't surprise me. Stay safe and the 2 of you keep up the great work. OH PRESS A BUTTON OR TWO
I had pressed the like button before you suggested 😉 Great tour and bigger thumbs up for little Eagle Eyes courage and passion to join this ventures with the great WWHH! Keep up the good work!
That bunker is a gift that just keeps on giving...it’s fascinating to see how it was constructed 👍 As for the electricity supply, someone is paying the bill and probably visiting from time to time...very odd. Great video again, thanks 🙏
The room with the window was possibly a lounge with a picture of a city in the window to help with morale and to prevent mental breakdown because of the stress of working underground, not to mention ( I'm sure ) to prevent the horrible feeling of claustrophobia ... At least that's what I would like to believe.
This is of particular interest to me because it was used during my lifetime. It is a fabulous feat of engineering! I've been waiting for this one! Thanks, Team HH! How did you resist throwing that lever?😄💖
Given the very modern electricity meter the power is still connected, the red light is the mains supply indicator, you can just make out on the very left panel that one of the phase indicator lights is dimly lit, probably due to damp in the change-over switch. it is not uncommon for cold war bunkers to still have power connected as their supplies from the grid were state secrets and never disconnected.
That was absolutely fascinating to watch. The mind boggles with all the possibilities of its function. Thank you for sharing your discovery with us, it's location was certainly lost to us for many years. What a find.
@@WW2HistoryHunter the old military buildings at Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii also have (unused now) reception booth style checkpoints in hallways and at stairways 👩🔧🇺🇲 1930s and 40s security.
Another great video and a amazing location, I follow your channel for about 2 years and I like watching your videos. Two thumbs up 👍👍 for you and Eagle Eyes. Greetings from Vienna, Austria
What would really be cool would be pictures of the rooms when they were in use and somebody that was actually there explaining things. WW2HistoryHunter buys the whole mountain complex and turns it into a Zombie Apocalypses shelter. :)
Awesome place, thanks for the extended look around the generator room, really enjoyed that. My take on what I saw; At 25:46, that is either a coolant pump for the engine jacket or an oil circulation pump. Looking at the pipework type and where it goes to on the engine, I would say it is oil. Engines of this size do circulate the oil through the sump and engine and sometimes heat it to make starting the engine easier. The pipes at 26:00 with the thermometer look more like the coolant pipes that then went under the floor. At 26:09, that looks like a standby diesel compressor for the air start system. You can see a hole in the end of the cover where the crank handle went through to manually start it. At 27:33, the pot will be the air reservoir for the air motor to crank the engine, that would be kept pressurised ready. At 27:38 above it, looks like the diesel fuel tank. 28:02 gets interesting, on the left it looks like the brushes and slip rings for the generator and then further in are the stator coils for the voltage being generated. 115V does not sound right for the main generator, I would expect it to be higher circa 380V. 500 rpm would sound right for the diesel generator, hence why the multiple coils in the stator. I wonder if the 115V refers to the smaller unit right on the end at 28:15, the brush and commutator arrangement suggests a smaller secondary generator. 28:26, I agree is the exhaust above the engine with the main silencer. 29:12, the brass box looks like an oiler to me, with the flow of oil to specific bearing being controlled by each of the screws along the top. Next to it, does look like the main diesel pump. 30:38 Looks like the main incoming electricity feed from another source, 400kW would supply about 100 homes nowadays. Their is an ammeter for each phase so you can see how well the load is balanced. The cos meter is power factor and basically measures the electrical efficiency. It is more for when running on the diesel engine, as you can control the excitation to improve efficiency and reduce fuel consumption. At 31:04 looks like the main generator control panel, with the main switch for transferring the power form the incoming supply to the generator. Doesn't look like there is a synchroniser to parallel up the generator to the mains, but I may have missed it. Once again thanks for the return tour!
What a cool place, not WWII but you and EE made it so much more interesting. Really would be great to find out what it was used for. Thanks so much for going back.
The white stuff that came out of the safe is fire proofing, probably asbestos from that period so in a dangerous form. In the event of a fire it would protect stuff inside the safe for a considerable time. Fantastic place and a great discovery.
@@philipmcdonagh1094 yes, a fire retardent material used up until the 70's in safes and filing cabinets to hold back fire. Became recognised as the cause of asbestosis, a serious and often fatal lung disease.
Thank you HH and EE for doing a part II on this location. I had been hoping you would be able to and willing to find what was at the top of the stairway! It's funny on the electricity; I was watching the first video with my wife and asked her who is paying for the electricity to still be on when you discovered the light still on. That would be an interesting project within itself, but not at the forefront of historical discoveries. Like you and many of your followers, I wish people wouldn't vandalize finds like this. Great conclusion you two and keep them coming... I promise to try and catch up on all your postings :).
Thank you for a great find. The generator engine the first unit with lines is the fuel injection pump and I think the brass unit with lines is an oiling system. Keep up the great work you and your family does.
Assume this installation is located somewhere in Norway. The generator engine is a two-stroke Wickmann Diesel, manufactured at Rubbestadneset in Norway. The manufacturer is today part of the Wartsila Group. The "brass box" referred to is used for lubrication of the cylinder liners. Prelubrication can be done prior to start by rotating the crank manually, but it is continuosly operated by a shaft when the engine runs. Very interresting video. Good work!
The room around 19:00 looks like a medical testing station. The counter in the outer room maybe sealed to avoid contact with nurse/doctor and patient. In that case sliding window is for urin/blood tests and medication giving.
I build homes and I have seen people put windows like that in a basement. They have a shade or opaque white glass installed in them. Then they back light it to give the appearance that you see daylight so you do not feel closed in.
That red light in the generator room leaves lots of questions. Somewhere, somehow there is an active power source. Either that or it was some sort of weird anomaly to make it appear to be lit when it was not.
The window and the house effects within the bunker is to make it feel more like home for extended stays, i.e., creature comforts. Which probably says they were down there for long periods of time. Another interesting video. Peace Brother... JP
Very interesting. My military-mind guess for that window, was that room was a lounge area (near the kitchen and bathroom) and behind the window would have been a restful picture of the outdoors. All to help poor bunker-rat soldiers, who hadn't seen the outside for days or months, relax. The only sign I spotted was in English. Were there any other signs, markings or documents that provided a hint on who used that place? America or England during the occupation? German Army, post war? 1950s? 1960s? Great stuff. (But not normal WW2HistoryHunter explorations.)
I was hoping that you were going to go back to that bunker I wanted to see it for its entirety that was absolutely amazing thank you for showing that to me I was waiting for that keep smiling be safe proud to be German
I commented on the one room that had the tanks. The room at 24:35 are air compressors, and one of their main jobs would be for starting the diesel generator. The one little room that had the windows, and then a small slit looks like a security check point. You had to show your badge to get into the rooms past this one.
So basically it's a plywood box in a cave, amazing it's lasted this long. The original electrical fittings look 60's but i'd guarantee the place was being looked after and manned until the early 90's when the soviet union collapsed.
26:35 FD(Force Draft Blower & motor or maybe a ID.....induced draft blower) 27:05 Battery room(to start the Genny) 29.59 MCC(motor control center and or PDC(power distribution center) and yes somewhere inside on the control circuit has power.
Armstrong Siddely is a small generator set that is used to hand start the system, it provides enough power to light up a few lights, and then provide power to start the big generator set to run the systems. 5 cylinder, likely a diesel engine off of a locomotive brought in there. Left is the diesel pump, the right brass box is a lubricating oil pump, that feeds all the moving parts that do not get fed engine oil in operation, so they will be lubricated in operation.
...ooh..I went all tingly when I saw that Armstrong-Siddeley, Coventry. England shiny plate! Oh the times when we actually made engineering goodies on mass!! What a gem...and it's lasted 60 odd years! 🇬🇧👍
Wondering how they managed to get all the equipment in, some of the openings you showed were small compared to what was inside the room. Did you look at any papers that were left behind to be sure of who built it? Very cool, you and your son did a great job. Love to see it myself.
The air compressors are used to start the diesel. The pump on the floor as you enter the engine room looks like the lube oil pump. The tank on the ceiling is the gravity oil feed or cooling.
I went to #1 and watched a tiny bit and said oh yes this I wanted to see more of so I’m back to this one thank you. You my pandemic program of choice! Haven’t been here long but I love it.
Super duper interesting location i wonder what it looked like with all the equipment installed. Amazing how it's all just abandoned and being a bit isolated its still intact enough to see some details. A window to nowhere that's funny, you're doing an awesome job as usual. :)
would love to hear some of your insights and knowledge. not many people can say the same. really anything about the era, daily happens, or stories people would love to hear about. its the human stuff that the structures cannot tell.
Great addition to the first video. Concerning the electrical generator system system: The smaller generating unit in front of the main generator is the exciter. It generates the dc current that powers the rotor of the main generator. This creates a magnetic field that when the diesel is running creates the high voltage AC power. .
They had to angle those windows out above the main floor...They would rush forward in the upper control booths during times of alert, and be able to stare down and focus more emphatically
Can you imagine the labor involved in digging through all that rock? Removing the rubble would be a project in itself. Plus pouring all the concrete so deep in the mountain. Just a mammoth project.
The Armstrong Siddleley machine is a small diesel air compressor, it could be started by hand and used to charge an air tank. The compressed air would then be used to start the big diesel generator. The tank next to the door which was referred to as a pot, is the starting air tank, with the delivery pipe going over head to the top on the generator. The electric pump before the little compressor is the coolant pump for the big generator.
@@WW2HistoryHunter I am sure they probably would work, machines like that can go for decades without being used and then started up after checking fluids. my only concern would be the state of the compressed air tank and the high pressure pipes, a rusty tank can turn into a bomb!!
@@patrickvanden8322 Hi Patrick, the generator set is complete, both the alternator and the exciter are untouched. it looks odd because it is an older open frame style alternator with a separate exciter, nowadays they are both in one unit and covered to allow forced air cooling. Thankfully metal thieves have not found that location!!
That was really cool, love the ww2 stuff but there is something about the cold war stuff, my children were amazed at the fact we did nuclear attack drills at school when i was a kid, they cant get the cold war thing lol.
Rooms with windows likely had behind the windows pictures or paintings of the outside world, so as to make it not feel like a tomb. Big V compressors are the airconditioning compressors, you probably had nearly a ton or R12 in the system, to provide cooling for the facility. 2 compressors so you can service the one and still have the aircon running to dehumidify the air in there, as likely it was otherwise too humid.
This is one hell of a discovery. I have never ever seen anything like this before. This looks to me like a WW2 Nazi Germany communications bunker that has been abandoned for well over 70 years. Obviously because of its remote location being constructed in a mountain. This would have been a highly top secret & well hidden WW2 bunker. Amazing discovery. The power generator would have been used to power the bunker & communications equipment if the mains power supply had failed.
24:28 that machine room cycles outside air through a series of water tanks and charcoal filter and other types of filters to purify the air from chemical, biological, radiological, weapons
@@WW2HistoryHunter Thank you for bringing your kids along and involving them, it is truly wholesome and I wish there were more Dads like you. God Bless.
30:36 COS fi, it's also known as power factor. Measures how much in phase or out of phase the AC voltage and current are. If the arrow points at 1, the load is active or very close to pure active and the power factor is at unity. Less than this means that there's either an inductive or a capacitive component to the load. Actually it's marked as "ind" and "kap" by the looks of it. That whole thing is basically a small power plant, with all the things you need to know about the produced power and it's usage. Also, very nice electromechanical frequency meters. These are working on the base of a mechanical resonance of a given part of the measuring dial that is surrounded by a very hing impedance coil. The coil is connected to the produced power and makes vibrating magnetic field with the same frequency as the produced power. Then a given section (square) of the dial starts to vibrate up and down, indicating the power frequency.
A very interesting location WW2HH! Creepy to say the least. I would have pulled that lever in the diesel room just to see what happened, but EE probably had the right idea - don’t touch just in case! I hope you guys wear suitable protection gear in these old locations, because you never know what hazards you might encounter, and you need to keep safe. Can’t wait for the next adventure. Cheers from Australia!
Lovely views out the windows it's a fare size cold war bunker I like how he was asking eagle eyes too press the switches and he's was saying no no no I'd have too press the buttons 😀
wow .. great find. Judging by the vintage, someone who worked here is still alive. it would be great if you could interview someone who could narrate your video. it must be declassified by now. the more you show the more questions come up.
The light that was on in your first video was off in this one, I'm assuming since you made no reference to it. Giving your son some good memories of time spent with you is a great thing also. Stay safe.
The brass box with the little pipes coming out of it on the generator engine is a oiling system to lubricate various components that are outside of the engine block. the shaft on the left is what powered it, on the right is a manual lever to operate it before starting the engine.
I bet the window in room 107 had a poster of an outside view, to help with potential scicological issues of been shut in an enclosed space for long terms.
The reason for the window is, a large picture or poster on the wall behind the window to give the appearance of not being underground. Looks like a film set from Dr. Strangelove!!
I would've pulled those levers in the engine room. Most likely the only thing that would happen is if theres some power going to everything is it'll blow a fuse or pop a breaker. Looks like most of the equipment in that room hasn't ran for sometime. Im doubtful the diesel engine would still be primed after all that sitting with no maintenance. The small room with the v-type compressor pumps may have been used for pumping water either out of the facility or in for supply . Judging by how much mold is in the place im guessing they had a hell of time with heating and cooling as well.
Room 107 probably had a painting of some wonderful Alpine meadow behind the window to help forget where the Officer was. Looked like a shelf to rest it on. Possibly the base Commanders office. Regards from Ireland.
18:43 Maybe it was the Tuck Shop for the soldiers and military staff. Like at big school we had a tuck shop for sweets and drinks, looked a bit like that, but not rotten, of course.
At 29:11 the “brass thing” is the oilers. All those lines deliver oil to moving parts. And one of the small air compressors I’m betting is “starring air”. A lot of big motors like that will use compressed air to roll it over when it’s started.
Armstrong Siddeley made British cars, aircraft engines, and diesel engines, until they went out of business in 1960, so that's really interesting. Quite a truly fascinating find. The gap between the mountain and the building is necessary to prevent moisture build-up inside, and provide access to pipes etc, and to provide a Buffer Zone for air pressure flow around and through the complex. It's actually amazing it seems someone is still checking in on the place. Really a fantastic little piece of history. Great work team! Cheers!
Thanks a lot Peter for great feedback and for watching and for your great support.
Great addition to the first segment. They did a lot of drilling and blasting since there is around 12m between the floor levels. Ah the window to nowhere, they are psychological stability, the wall past the window would have had a large picture that may have been lit during "daylight hours". Crews living underground for a week could become time disoriented. Saw this in our missile complexes. The brass unit on the generator is more then likely an oiler for the pistons. I noticed a tag on the top of the generator is you ever get back it will give you all the information. I would say the place was the complex is late 50's early 60's, the screw-in fuses in most modern countries new construction after mid 60's were breakers. There being a walk way all around the rooms doesn't surprise me. Stay safe and the 2 of you keep up the great work. OH PRESS A BUTTON OR TWO
Glad you liked the part 2 William. This place is truly interesting and very glad we found it. Thanks and be safe.
Close it's for the rods that push the valves up and down, squirts oil in between to stop metal contact, other one was the diesel injectors.
I had pressed the like button before you suggested 😉
Great tour and bigger thumbs up for little Eagle Eyes courage and passion to join this ventures with the great WWHH!
Keep up the good work!
You're the best!
That bunker is a gift that just keeps on giving...it’s fascinating to see how it was constructed 👍 As for the electricity supply, someone is paying the bill and probably visiting from time to time...very odd. Great video again, thanks 🙏
Glad you liked it and thanks.
The room with the window was possibly a lounge with a picture of a city in the window to help with morale and to prevent mental breakdown because of the stress of working underground, not to mention ( I'm sure ) to prevent the horrible feeling of claustrophobia ... At least that's what I would like to believe.
Thanks for comment and for watching.
That is exactly correct. The false windows and scenery help to avoid claustrophobia and melancholy. It's a shame the picture was missing from this.
Sixty Steps to Room 107. The new Horror novel by History Hunter and Eagle Eyes. Great video and location.
what a great idea :) Thanks Penny :)
This is of particular interest to me because it was used during my lifetime. It is a fabulous feat of engineering! I've been waiting for this one! Thanks, Team HH! How did you resist throwing that lever?😄💖
Well when Eagle Eyes is behind my back i know not to touch any switches :) Thanks Cynthia.
The red light was probably powered by a bank of rechargeable batteries, still trickling a very old charge. Most interesting.. Thank you!
Interesting!
Given the very modern electricity meter the power is still connected, the red light is the mains supply indicator, you can just make out on the very left panel that one of the phase indicator lights is dimly lit, probably due to damp in the change-over switch. it is not uncommon for cold war bunkers to still have power connected as their supplies from the grid were state secrets and never disconnected.
That was absolutely fascinating to watch. The mind boggles with all the possibilities of its function. Thank you for sharing your discovery with us, it's location was certainly lost to us for many years. What a find.
Thank you Beverley and greetings from us.
Love that place, so glad you went back, wouldn't it be great to know it's true purpose and history?
Another great vid, thank you! 👌
Great explore and glad we found it. Thanks Glenn.
@@WW2HistoryHunter the old military buildings at Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii also have (unused now) reception booth style checkpoints in hallways and at stairways 👩🔧🇺🇲 1930s and 40s security.
What a great find!! Thanks History Hunter and Eagle Eyes!!
All our pleasure and thanks my friend.
Another great video and a amazing location, I follow your channel for about 2 years and I like watching your videos. Two thumbs up 👍👍 for you and Eagle Eyes. Greetings from Vienna, Austria
Awesome, thank you!
What would really be cool would be pictures of the rooms when they were in use and somebody that was actually there explaining things.
WW2HistoryHunter buys the whole mountain complex and turns it into a Zombie Apocalypses shelter. :)
Would be fun to do :) Thanks Fred.
NICE TO SEE THAT SOME STILL CARE THANKS FROM SCOTLAND .
Thanks Alan.
Awesome place, thanks for the extended look around the generator room, really enjoyed that. My take on what I saw;
At 25:46, that is either a coolant pump for the engine jacket or an oil circulation pump. Looking at the pipework type and where it goes to on the engine, I would say it is oil. Engines of this size do circulate the oil through the sump and engine and sometimes heat it to make starting the engine easier. The pipes at 26:00 with the thermometer look more like the coolant pipes that then went under the floor.
At 26:09, that looks like a standby diesel compressor for the air start system. You can see a hole in the end of the cover where the crank handle went through to manually start it.
At 27:33, the pot will be the air reservoir for the air motor to crank the engine, that would be kept pressurised ready. At 27:38 above it, looks like the diesel fuel tank.
28:02 gets interesting, on the left it looks like the brushes and slip rings for the generator and then further in are the stator coils for the voltage being generated. 115V does not sound right for the main generator, I would expect it to be higher circa 380V. 500 rpm would sound right for the diesel generator, hence why the multiple coils in the stator. I wonder if the 115V refers to the smaller unit right on the end at 28:15, the brush and commutator arrangement suggests a smaller secondary generator.
28:26, I agree is the exhaust above the engine with the main silencer.
29:12, the brass box looks like an oiler to me, with the flow of oil to specific bearing being controlled by each of the screws along the top. Next to it, does look like the main diesel pump.
30:38 Looks like the main incoming electricity feed from another source, 400kW would supply about 100 homes nowadays. Their is an ammeter for each phase so you can see how well the load is balanced. The cos meter is power factor and basically measures the electrical efficiency. It is more for when running on the diesel engine, as you can control the excitation to improve efficiency and reduce fuel consumption.
At 31:04 looks like the main generator control panel, with the main switch for transferring the power form the incoming supply to the generator. Doesn't look like there is a synchroniser to parallel up the generator to the mains, but I may have missed it.
Once again thanks for the return tour!
Thanks for the observations and greetings from us.
Great video showing Cold War bunker the deisel generator room was amazing what you can find out in the countryside still is great. ☺️
Yes i agree Jacqui , a very interesting location it is. Thanks and be safe.
What a cool place, not WWII but you and EE made it so much more interesting. Really would be great to find out what it was used for. Thanks so much for going back.
Great place and i think some kind of Nato thing going on there. Thanks Allen :)
The white stuff that came out of the safe is fire proofing, probably asbestos from that period so in a dangerous form. In the event of a fire it would protect stuff inside the safe for a considerable time. Fantastic place and a great discovery.
Appreciate your comment and for watching.
Ummmm asbestos
@@philipmcdonagh1094 yes, a fire retardent material used up until the 70's in safes and filing cabinets to hold back fire. Became recognised as the cause of asbestosis, a serious and often fatal lung disease.
Amazing find. Such a trip through time. A lot of good craftsmanship.
Couldn't agree more!
Keep up the good work mate
Thanks, will do!
Thank you HH and EE for doing a part II on this location. I had been hoping you would be able to and willing to find what was at the top of the stairway! It's funny on the electricity; I was watching the first video with my wife and asked her who is paying for the electricity to still be on when you discovered the light still on. That would be an interesting project within itself, but not at the forefront of historical discoveries. Like you and many of your followers, I wish people wouldn't vandalize finds like this. Great conclusion you two and keep them coming... I promise to try and catch up on all your postings :).
yes it is kind of strange to see electricity still on and i wonder also who pays the bill. Thank you my friend and be safe out there.
Thank you for a great find. The generator engine the first unit with lines is the fuel injection pump and I think the brass unit with lines is an oiling system.
Keep up the great work you and your family does.
Thank you Dennis.
Amazing location. Would absolutely love to explore that in person! Thanks for taking us along with you.
Our pleasure and very glad we could share it with you :)
Crazy stuff!! Tx again for a great vid guys!
Our pleasure!
What happened. Just finally got a notification of a new video that just posted yesterday. Glad to see your still around😍🥰
More to come!
Probably my most favorite video so far! Excellent work WWII HISTORY HUNTER AND EAGLE EYES!!!! A million thumbs up! 👍
Thanks Dave.
Assume this installation is located somewhere in Norway. The generator engine is a two-stroke Wickmann Diesel, manufactured at Rubbestadneset in Norway. The manufacturer is today part of the Wartsila Group.
The "brass box" referred to is used for lubrication of the cylinder liners. Prelubrication can be done prior to start by rotating the crank manually, but it is continuosly operated by a shaft when the engine runs.
Very interresting video. Good work!
Thanks for watching.
Glad you returned great field trip, thank you.
Our pleasure!
👍thumbs up my friend 👍thumbs up. Keep up the great videos
Greatly appreciated David :)
The room around 19:00 looks like a medical testing station. The counter in the outer room maybe sealed to avoid contact with nurse/doctor and patient. In that case sliding window is for urin/blood tests and medication giving.
ok could be i wouldnt know. Thanks for watching.
I build homes and I have seen people put windows like that in a basement. They have a shade or opaque white glass installed in them. Then they back light it to give the appearance that you see daylight so you do not feel closed in.
Cool feature and thanks for watching.
@@WW2HistoryHunter you are absolutely welcome. We watch your videos every week. I am actually watching one right now. 👍🏻
Great job dudes,
That was a great tour
Thnx!
Thanks JT
Awesome finds metal detecting thank you history hunter.
Thank YOU William :)
Great job on the find
Thank you my friend.
That red light in the generator room leaves lots of questions. Somewhere, somehow there is an active power source. Either that or it was some sort of weird anomaly to make it appear to be lit when it was not.
Well i think there is still power into that place but i dont know why and how :) Thanks
Favourite exploration channel. Keep it up! 👍🏻
Thanks for that.
The window and the house effects within the bunker is to make it feel more like home for extended stays, i.e., creature comforts. Which probably says they were down there for long periods of time. Another interesting video. Peace Brother... JP
Thanks James :)
Very interesting. My military-mind guess for that window, was that room was a lounge area (near the kitchen and bathroom) and behind the window would have been a restful picture of the outdoors. All to help poor bunker-rat soldiers, who hadn't seen the outside for days or months, relax.
The only sign I spotted was in English. Were there any other signs, markings or documents that provided a hint on who used that place? America or England during the occupation? German Army, post war? 1950s? 1960s? Great stuff. (But not normal WW2HistoryHunter explorations.)
Not a bad idea. Thanks
Amazing. love your channel.thank you.👍❤️🇺🇸
Another Outstanding video... Thank you and stay safe....
Thanks, will do!
I was hoping that you were going to go back to that bunker I wanted to see it for its entirety that was absolutely amazing thank you for showing that to me I was waiting for that keep smiling be safe proud to be German
Very glad we did and thanks Kenneth.
I commented on the one room that had the tanks. The room at 24:35 are air compressors, and one of their main jobs would be for starting the diesel generator. The one little room that had the windows, and then a small slit looks like a security check point. You had to show your badge to get into the rooms past this one.
ok and thanks Larry for comment and for watching.
@@WW2HistoryHunter You are welcome, keep up the good work.
So basically it's a plywood box in a cave, amazing it's lasted this long. The original electrical fittings look 60's but i'd guarantee the place was being looked after and manned until the early 90's when the soviet union collapsed.
Thanks for watching.
Wow another great trip bk to bunker and it just gets better thankyou for your great content your a joy to watch
Thanks 👍
Great find thanks for sharing
Thanks
Such a awesome exploration thank you for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it
26:35 FD(Force Draft Blower & motor or maybe a ID.....induced draft blower) 27:05 Battery room(to start the Genny) 29.59 MCC(motor control center and or PDC(power distribution center) and yes somewhere inside on the control circuit has power.
Good to know and thanks :)
Armstrong Siddely is a small generator set that is used to hand start the system, it provides enough power to light up a few lights, and then provide power to start the big generator set to run the systems. 5 cylinder, likely a diesel engine off of a locomotive brought in there. Left is the diesel pump, the right brass box is a lubricating oil pump, that feeds all the moving parts that do not get fed engine oil in operation, so they will be lubricated in operation.
...ooh..I went all tingly when I saw that Armstrong-Siddeley, Coventry. England shiny plate! Oh the times when we actually made engineering goodies on mass!! What a gem...and it's lasted 60 odd years! 🇬🇧👍
Thanks.
You never let us down, thank you for a great video. Was the light on from the last video? Be safe my friend
Some how the light was now off and we didnt touch any switches there. Thanks.
@@WW2HistoryHunter Now THATS really creepy.
Wondering how they managed to get all the equipment in, some of the openings you showed were small compared to what was inside the room. Did you look at any papers that were left behind to be sure of who built it?
Very cool, you and your son did a great job. Love to see it myself.
No didnt look at any papers there. I agree some of the gear must have been installed before they closed it up. Thanks Douglas.
The air compressors are used to start the diesel. The pump on the floor as you enter the engine room looks like the lube oil pump. The tank on the ceiling is the gravity oil feed or cooling.
Thanks for feedback and for watching.
I went to #1 and watched a tiny bit and said oh yes this I wanted to see more of so I’m back to this one thank you. You my pandemic program of choice! Haven’t been here long but I love it.
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@@WW2HistoryHunter love it your welcome hey can you write the name for your flash light
Super duper interesting location i wonder what it looked like with all the equipment installed. Amazing how it's all just abandoned and being a bit isolated its still intact enough to see some details. A window to nowhere that's funny, you're doing an awesome job as usual. :)
Executive diggs back in the 1940s. Probably updated once but discontinued with larger defense budgets in 50s and 60s.
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That was unbelievable. The Cold War ghosts. To think there is still electricity flowing is confusing. Nice find and great tour!
I agree someone forgot to pull the plug completely it seems :) Thanks Mary
De ja vu for me HH. I spent four years as a security supervisor on top of similar holes in the ground.
Wow there you go the earth is not that big it seems :) thanks Paul
would love to hear some of your insights and knowledge. not many people can say the same. really anything about the era, daily happens, or stories people would love to hear about. its the human stuff that the structures cannot tell.
L wish to thank you for your response l am so happy for what you do and l thank you from Australia for being who you are
All our pleasure my friend and be safe.
Terrific find! Thank you!
Our pleasure Gerry and greetings from us.
Great addition to the first video. Concerning the electrical generator system system:
The smaller generating unit in front of the main generator is the exciter. It generates the dc current that powers the rotor of the main generator. This creates a magnetic field that when the diesel is running creates the high voltage AC power. .
There you go and thanks for that John.
They had to angle those windows out above the main floor...They would rush forward in the upper control booths during times of alert, and be able to stare down and focus more emphatically
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Great info 🇸🇪
Thanks John
The refrigeration systems were probably huge dehumidifiers, which clearly the facility needs!
That could be it yes. Thanks for watching.
Fantastic exploring I loved it wery much, great work 💪
Thanks
Can you imagine the labor involved in digging through all that rock? Removing the rubble would be a project in itself. Plus pouring all the concrete so deep in the mountain. Just a mammoth project.
i agree and by the HUGE piles of rock outside they really did a lot of digging there. Thanks Joe.
The Armstrong Siddleley machine is a small diesel air compressor, it could be started by hand and used to charge an air tank. The compressed air would then be used to start the big diesel generator. The tank next to the door which was referred to as a pot, is the starting air tank, with the delivery pipe going over head to the top on the generator. The electric pump before the little compressor is the coolant pump for the big generator.
Would have been cool to see if they all worked to start the generator :) Thanks
@@WW2HistoryHunter I am sure they probably would work, machines like that can go for decades without being used and then started up after checking fluids.
my only concern would be the state of the compressed air tank and the high pressure pipes, a rusty tank can turn into a bomb!!
@@killuazoldyck1352 Well to me it looked like the generator was stripped from it's copper windings by copper thieves.
@@patrickvanden8322 Hi Patrick, the generator set is complete, both the alternator and the exciter are untouched. it looks odd because it is an older open frame style alternator with a separate exciter, nowadays they are both in one unit and covered to allow forced air cooling.
Thankfully metal thieves have not found that location!!
@@killuazoldyck1352 Ah thanks, Indeed @ 28:10 it looked a bit empty to me. So that is the exciter?
That was really cool, love the ww2 stuff but there is something about the cold war stuff, my children were amazed at the fact we did nuclear attack drills at school when i was a kid, they cant get the cold war thing lol.
I agree something special about that yes. Thanks.
I'm looking forward to the next video from this location, and what you found. My guess; Aliens in cold storage.
You never know :)
Really aliens in a secret Cold War bunker
It's not ventilation shaft but vintage air conditioning system. You can determine this by the air conditioning central ducts installed over the place.
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Rooms with windows likely had behind the windows pictures or paintings of the outside world, so as to make it not feel like a tomb. Big V compressors are the airconditioning compressors, you probably had nearly a ton or R12 in the system, to provide cooling for the facility. 2 compressors so you can service the one and still have the aircon running to dehumidify the air in there, as likely it was otherwise too humid.
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There were 45 subs unaccounted for
After the war not including the little ones
They have never been found
As always Great Show
Denny from Minnesota
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This is one hell of a discovery.
I have never ever seen anything like this before.
This looks to me like a WW2 Nazi Germany communications bunker that has been abandoned for well over 70 years.
Obviously because of its remote location being constructed in a mountain.
This would have been a highly top secret & well hidden WW2 bunker.
Amazing discovery.
The power generator would have been used to power the bunker & communications equipment if the mains power supply had failed.
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Nice location as always
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24:28 that machine room cycles outside air through a series of water tanks and charcoal filter and other types of filters to purify the air from chemical, biological, radiological, weapons
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That place just blew up my brain. Crazy!
Great explore and thanks :)
You guys do a great job
Appreciated Daniel :)
Excellent Discoveries 👊👊👊👊👊❤️
Thank you kindly
What did happened there? Man this is just CRAZY! Thanks for sharing dude!
Great place and glad we could share it with you :)
Nothing else to say but great work as always and here's a comment to feed the algorithm!
Thanks Jeff :)
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Thank you for bringing your kids along and involving them, it is truly wholesome and I wish there were more Dads like you. God Bless.
30:36 COS fi, it's also known as power factor. Measures how much in phase or out of phase the AC voltage and current are. If the arrow points at 1, the load is active or very close to pure active and the power factor is at unity. Less than this means that there's either an inductive or a capacitive component to the load. Actually it's marked as "ind" and "kap" by the looks of it. That whole thing is basically a small power plant, with all the things you need to know about the produced power and it's usage.
Also, very nice electromechanical frequency meters. These are working on the base of a mechanical resonance of a given part of the measuring dial that is surrounded by a very hing impedance coil. The coil is connected to the produced power and makes vibrating magnetic field with the same frequency as the produced power. Then a given section (square) of the dial starts to vibrate up and down, indicating the power frequency.
Cool to know and thanks for that.
That bunker is amazing!!
It is Tommy and thanks.
A very interesting location WW2HH! Creepy to say the least. I would have pulled that lever in the diesel room just to see what happened, but EE probably had the right idea - don’t touch just in case!
I hope you guys wear suitable protection gear in these old locations, because you never know what hazards you might encounter, and you need to keep safe.
Can’t wait for the next adventure.
Cheers from Australia!
i agree so tempting to push or pull something there :) We used high quality masks so we think it was ok. Thanks Gary
The openings could be maintenance shafts to get to the tubing....
They might very well be yes. Thanks.
Lovely views out the windows it's a fare size cold war bunker I like how he was asking eagle eyes too press the switches and he's was saying no no no I'd have too press the buttons 😀
He doesnt let me do that no matter what :) Good thing i think :) Thanks Karl
Awesome. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Question...was that light still on when you went back the second time? Great video...
We didnt see any light the second time. Thanks Thomas
Yes I noticed that too, very odd.
wow .. great find. Judging by the vintage, someone who worked here is still alive. it would be great if you could interview someone who could narrate your video. it must be declassified by now. the more you show the more questions come up.
Well it seems like it used to be very secret so could be difficult to find any from that place at all. Thanks
The light that was on in your first video was off in this one, I'm assuming since you made no reference to it. Giving your son some good memories of time spent with you is a great thing also. Stay safe.
Great place to explore and share and thanks.
Probably had a scene of the outside ie. Sky, mountains, trees. Etc. in that window in 107. I've seen it in other underground facilities. Great video!👍
Very cool
The brass box with the little pipes coming out of it on the generator engine is a oiling system to lubricate various components that are outside of the engine block. the shaft on the left is what powered it, on the right is a manual lever to operate it before starting the engine.
Good to know and thanks my friend.
At 24:48 it looks like a pair of air compressors. Compressed air may have been needed to operate dampener doors on the HVAC equipment.
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I bet the window in room 107 had a poster of an outside view, to help with potential scicological issues of been shut in an enclosed space for long terms.
Could be so yes. Thanks Bob.
Hey I have those stamped steel shelf brackets in use. They are so ubiquitous as to be universal no matter where you are!
yes i have them too actually :) Thanks my friend.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY were a car bicycle and watch manufacturer from my home town of Coventry uk from 1919 to1960,s
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The reason for the window is, a large picture or poster on the wall behind the window to give the appearance of not being underground. Looks like a film set from Dr. Strangelove!!
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I would've pulled those levers in the engine room. Most likely the only thing that would happen is if theres some power going to everything is it'll blow a fuse or pop a breaker. Looks like most of the equipment in that room hasn't ran for sometime. Im doubtful the diesel engine would still be primed after all that sitting with no maintenance. The small room with the v-type compressor pumps may have been used for pumping water either out of the facility or in for supply . Judging by how much mold is in the place im guessing they had a hell of time with heating and cooling as well.
Interesting place indeed and thanks for watching.
Room 107 probably had a painting of some wonderful Alpine meadow behind the window to help forget where the Officer was. Looked like a shelf to rest it on. Possibly the base Commanders office. Regards from Ireland.
That could be it for sure. Thanks and greetings to Ireland.
Great video thanks for sharing. We have a pretty much complete cold war bunker near us it's called kelvedon hatch. You should look it up.👍
ok sounds interesting. Thanks my friend.
18:43 Maybe it was the Tuck Shop for the soldiers and military staff. Like at big school we had a tuck shop for sweets and drinks, looked a bit like that, but not rotten, of course.
could be indeed and thanks my friend :)
I'm waiting for part 3 where they get some service technicians and engineers and get that 5 cylinder generator running,,,
Well you might get a surprise....
PS you should have checked a fire extinguisher, they typically get a tag with the date of thier last refill .. might have been enlightening
could have yes. Thanks.
At 29:11 the “brass thing” is the oilers. All those lines deliver oil to moving parts. And one of the small air compressors I’m betting is “starring air”. A lot of big motors like that will use compressed air to roll it over when it’s started.
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AT 24:50 Those V compressors are for A/C , you can see the charging port right next to compressor with the cap on, and the charging line.
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