RE: Abandoned Finland - Old Factory Area
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I worked in an auto plant for 14 years in my younger days, on the line first but finished up in management. There were 5500 people working there but in shut down periods only a handful. I used to wander around the massive multi-plant facility and imagine the apocalypse and all the machines, robots and systems gone silent forever. It was an immense place and a bit eerie wandering around there. Fun though. I like me a good old abandoned place. Nice images.
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Auto plant is a funny name, like a green house but for cars. Planting cars.
It must have been a lot of fun to walk among the massive machines and feel their power even when they were having a nap.
Lol...I was wondering if that would translate.
A plant is a term used to describe a factory or big equipment like mining trucks. I don't know why, but that's what it means. The site I worked on was massive and each manufacturing building was called a *plant. Plant One, Plant two Plant three etc.
I worked in general assembly putting engines and gear boxes in initially (Plant 2) and ended up managing around 500 people in Plastics (Plant 5)...That was many years ago now though.
It was a massive place and was very cool just wandering around when the shut downs were on. We'd have programmed maintenance running and I'd supervise...But wander around also...It was cool. No photos though, that would have got me fired.
I know what it means, but I just find it funny :) It's also interesting that the word auto is not often used for automobiles, but car is the normal term nowadays, but in finnish car is still auto, short for automobiili.
Oh sorry, I wasn't sure. Sorry for that stupid explanation. 🥴
We say car generally. Car-plant. I like Automobiili though...I might start saying that...Give people another reason to think I'm a froot loop. 😁