Historical British Educational Film. Mummy and Daughter Change a Fuse Wire.

Nice to see a double pole switch between the meter and the fuseboard (albeit an metal bodied one) to de-mark the end of the local electricity board property and the start of the consuming installation.


. If only such  a thing was a requirement for installations today!


For the 1940s the animated graphics are a bit dated showing a fused neutral, but then not describing it, such things had fallen out of favour in the late '20s .I imagine they were lifted from another film made earlier, and simply given a new voice over.

I can remember my grandparents using the lamp adaptor to 2 pin plug prior to a rewire in the mid 1970s - trying to read as the lamp swayed in time with my grandma doing the ironing, giving a moving shadow on the book.

No-one worried that much about the absence of an earth at that time, I presume it was cut back or covered in "Empire brand" black cloth insulation tape.

Nice to see a double pole switch between the meter and the fuseboard (albeit an metal bodied one) to de-mark the end of the local electricity board property and the start of the consuming installation.


. If only such  a thing was a requirement for installations today!


For the 1940s the animated graphics are a bit dated showing a fused neutral, but then not describing it, such things had fallen out of favour in the late '20s .I imagine they were lifted from another film made earlier, and simply given a new voice over.

I can remember my grandparents using the lamp adaptor to 2 pin plug prior to a rewire in the mid 1970s - trying to read as the lamp swayed in time with my grandma doing the ironing, giving a moving shadow on the book.

No-one worried that much about the absence of an earth at that time, I presume it was cut back or covered in "Empire brand" black cloth insulation tape.