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Lighting Wiring Consideration.

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I am going to use some Henley Paper Insulated House Wiring cable for a lighting circuit. The manufacturer is W.T. Henley's Telegraph Works Company Ltd., Holborn Viaduct, London E.C.1.I am using their Section CA catalogue.

The cable is called YT type. It is paper insulated house wire.


I am thinking of using 3.029 inch twin cable. It is rated at 7.8 Amps. I will use a 5 Amp fuse in the fuse box.


Q1. What is the cable outer covering made of?


Q.2. What is the weight of the cable per 1,000 yards in cwt?


Q.3. What is the price per 1,000 yards.


The year is 1927, the month June.


Z.


Edit. Some minor typos corrected.
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    GeoffBlackwell:

    It's probably lead sheathed so very heavy.  I ripped lots of it out back in the 60's & 70's.


    Regards


    Geoff Blackwell




    Handy for ballast.


    Nearly fifty years ago I worked for a millionaire engineer who owned a small factory who made millions from patent rights, but could not resist doing cash in hand repairs for farmers, he actually bought scrap lead and copper from the scrapyard to use as ballast in his boat, the second biggest in Weymouth Harbour being beaten in size by the ferry to the Channel Islands. His theory was wherever you go in the world there’s always a scrapyard to convert scrap back to cash and a beach to get some ballast to replace it.


    He would be mighty put out that scrapyards now pay by bank transfer.


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    GeoffBlackwell:

    It's probably lead sheathed so very heavy.  I ripped lots of it out back in the 60's & 70's.


    Regards


    Geoff Blackwell




    Handy for ballast.


    Nearly fifty years ago I worked for a millionaire engineer who owned a small factory who made millions from patent rights, but could not resist doing cash in hand repairs for farmers, he actually bought scrap lead and copper from the scrapyard to use as ballast in his boat, the second biggest in Weymouth Harbour being beaten in size by the ferry to the Channel Islands. His theory was wherever you go in the world there’s always a scrapyard to convert scrap back to cash and a beach to get some ballast to replace it.


    He would be mighty put out that scrapyards now pay by bank transfer.


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