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The Devisor Lab (Vehicle) is located under Kane Hall, and is the domain of Melvin Donner.[1]

A pair of double doors opened into a vaulted cavern with a barrel ceiling high overhead with fluorescent tubes suspended providing light. At one end was a rollup door next to a cage that held the more expensive parts and diagnostic tools, the other had a teaching area with desks, a black board and an office. Between were a double dozen individual bays, most with vehicles already in them, some on hydraulic lifts, all with their hoods up, and students fawning over the hunks of metal like surgeon's (sic) crooning over the President.[2]

A sprawling complex of 20 vehicle bays[3], overhead lifts, machine shop, and individual labs, the work here is done with vehicles of all makes and vintages, and restoration is only part of what goes on. Modification, research and development, experimentation with new technologies melding together with the tried and true, this is the domain of a grimy handed brother and sisterhood of mechanics and engineers, united by their love of that which goes from point A to point B via all the points in-between with the roar of a solid engine doing what it does best. Not all who toiled here joined the Whateley Academy Automotive Club, but the Gearheads had a strong presence, encouraged by their advisor, Mr. Donner, who had found a vocation as well as avocation when he joined the staff at Whateley Academy.

There was one time they didn't eschew other means of getting from point A to point B. The Devisor Lab (Vehicle) is a good forty feet below the surface of Whateley Academy, nestled in the granite bedrock below Kane Hall, yet the large shop doors open on the windswept Kennecott Salt Flats in Utah, providing the perfect place for performance trials.[4][5]

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While not mentioned, there must be some means of getting large objects from the surface to the labs; those cars got there somehow, after all, and not all of them came in through Utah.

Hard to believe I haven't mentioned this yet, but, the roll up door at the far end has two buttons on it's control besides 'close'. One opens the door out to the Kennecott Salt Flats, the other opens the door into the back of a pair of barn doors on the parking lot side of Kane Hall. If you open these barn doors from the outside, you find yourself looking at a brick wall. From the inside however, and you get the parking lot. This is how the cars get in and out of the lab. Enalley 03:46, December 21, 2010 (UTC)

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