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I have a smallish cardboard box, pale yellow in colour. It has blue printing on it. The box is sized 3 inches by 2 3/8th by 2 3/8th inches approx.


The Maker of the contents displays an address of Neasden Lane, London NW10 IRN.


The useful electrical item inside is what? (Accurate title needed please).


Z.


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    Partial answer..


    In Willesdon, it will be British Thomson Houston, or it later became  GEC/AEI before it shut totally in the 1970s.


    Mike
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    Is it a present from Sid and Doris Bonkers?
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    Neasden Lane!  I was married in St. Mary's Church at the Church Road end, the end that the B.T.H factory was located.  In my younger days I travelled Neasden Lane daily on my way to work at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill (of Tommy Flowers, Colossus computer codebreaker fame).  It is very different now, and no electrical manufacturing as far as I am aware, so if it is an older item it will be BTH, possibly a panel meter of some type, although the Willesden factory made heavy duty items as I recall.


    David
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    davidwalker2:

    Neasden Lane!  I was married in St. Mary's Church at the Church Road end, the end that the B.T.H factory was located.  In my younger days I travelled Neasden Lane daily on my way to work at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill (of Tommy Flowers, Colossus computer codebreaker fame).  It is very different now, and no electrical manufacturing as far as I am aware, so if it is an older item it will be BTH, possibly a panel meter of some type, although the Willesden factory made heavy duty items as I recall.


    David


    Clue: British patent no. 1261518.


    Z.


     


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    wallywombat:

    Is it a present from Sid and Doris Bonkers?


    No it is not a present. Sid and Doris have emigrated to Australia. I purchased it myself to replace one that I lost. The item has a lot of blue in it.


    Z.


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    I managed to work out it was where BTH were based, but you said the Post Code was NW10 1RN, and Post Codes were only introduced nationally in 1970, around the time the BTH site closed.


    The patent number is rather a giveaway as that is for the Martindale Electric Socket Tester, and though Martindale are now based in Watford they may have been in Neasden Road back in the day.


    Edit: Possibly the Check It socket tester
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    Alasdair Anderson:

    I managed to work out it was where BTH were based, but you said the Post Code was NW10 1RN, and Post Codes were only introduced nationally in 1970, around the time the BTH site closed.


    The patent number is rather a giveaway as that is for the Martindale Electric Socket Tester, and though Martindale are now based in Watford they may have been in Neasden Road back in the day.


    Edit: Possibly the Check It socket tester


    Almost Alasdair, but I do need the exact product description title please.


    Z.


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    Mike's got it. It is a Martindale Ring Main Tester. Did we really call ring final circuits Ring Mains? Yes we did.


    Martindale Electric Co. Ltd. Neasden Lane, London NW10 1RN.


    Z.

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