Very old elevators, still in original form

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Years ago (2004 or 2005), when I worked as a courier on bicycle I had the chance to ride an vintage elevator. Very small one, 2 persons only. Most pre-communist apartament (flat) buildings in Bucharest had 3 persons elevator (lifts), some 2 persons and very rare 4 persons elevators (I lived up untill age of 5 in one, but the elevator isn't the original one... do know about the "service" elevator). Well, the elevator was original because it moved slowly, even slower then the 1963 elevators. And old man told me that the elevator was original. I coulnd't be 100% procent original, because in the '60's or early '70's the enegine was switched from 208 Volts to 380 Volts - in Bucharest, when that bulding was constructed, the voltage was 208/120 Volts, not 380/220 Volts - only outiside the city (excepting Băneasa, now part of Bucharest) they introduced 380/220 Volts from the begining.
The elevator dosen't works nowdays...
Oh, this elevator was installed or bought probably by some brothers wo today would have a quite obscene name (no joke).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn1udxxbzDU&t=21s

Here is an "Otis". Yes, the famous company. Too bad that the calling panel (do you have in English the expression "calling the elevator" are not originals, beeing replaced in the '60's probably. But the sign of the company put down... wow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6WT...YXJhZ2lhbGU%3D

Some of the 3 stories (floors) buldings from before 1947-1948 had also elevators. But the space between the floor and the celling was bigger, about 2.8 - 3 meters... some coomie blocks (apartament buldings built during communism) do have 2,7-2,8 meters in room height, but most 2,5 and sometimes 2,6. Durring communism usually only 5 stories and above apartament buldings had elevators installed, so most 3-4 stories apartament bulding from after 1946-1948 do NOT have elevators. Here is a nice prewar one with and original elevator. Oh, the bulding haves an modernistic Art-Deco exterior, but inside is quite more of the '20's then the '30's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUN7f0fwBqk

Not more then 200 yards away, is another original one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLjv_9zBV4w&t=241s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2n9...5lYXNjYQ%3D%3D

And not too far away (probabil less the 2 kilomters - a mile an abuot 1/4), in a bulding made by a famous Romanian architect, Horia Creangă, the nephew of the writer Ion Creangă, another one.
"Brown, Bovery und Cie." had durring communism the offices on the same adress from the panel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfUG0MTFYfU

And at the end, one of those installed by those brothers. This one, I discovered it before the boy who films them, in a real estate add. I was amazed that is working, because new regulations...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E_m...9zaWxvcg%3D%3D


If you know old elevators, which still have the original buttons, beside the original cabin, maybe you post images of them here.