Electrical specification in sales particulars. When and where?

Splendid ! the good old days. Continuous current.

Sounds like Cragside.

It's now a hotel in Hampshire…

Electric broughams. I had to look that up…………………Even a photo of one but not clear enough to see the registration plate.

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BOD

120 kWh of battery storage in a room approximately 22' x 30'. Would have made your eyes water I think..

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BOD

Chris Pearson: 
 

Sounds like Cragside.

I thought that Cragside was hydroelectric power, no boilers or engines needed.

I've had no success in finding out what is meant by: “duplicate interchangeable system” in this context. 

Might it relate to 1+1 redundancy of the dynamo systems perhaps?

Right, I need a restful early night having discovered that my laptop doesn't have adequate IP rating for my carelessness with a drink……………. Had to replace it today ££££, the laptop that is, I replaced the drink many times after the event during the week to numb the pain.

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BOiDiot

The It has most of everything you could want in a modern home, electric car charging, battery storage, a sprinkler system and a fire resistant distribution board.

perspicacious: 
120 kWh of battery storage in a room approximately 22' x 30'. Would have made your eyes water I think.

Knowing how much capacity there was in diesel-electric boats and the space taken up by the batteries was always well above my security clearance, but 22' x 30' might have been quite a big space for a submarine.

You might also wonder about the size of the reactor in nuclear boats.

 Country houses now hotels in Hampshire suggests somewhere in the New Forest.

perspicacious: 
 

 “The Electric Installation is of the most perfect type and on the duplicate interchangeable system. At the far end of the Stable yard is a substantial Engine House having glazed white brick walls, and with coal cellar, boiler house and store adjoining, and containing two ”Davey Paxman" loco type boilers (each of 20-h.p,) with feed pump, steam injectors, etc. A spacious Dynamo Room, in which are two “Raworth Universal Brush Company's” engines and dynamos of 40-h.p., direct coupled. In this room is a very large marble switch-board which controls the whole of the installation, and there are also charging boards for small accumulators and electric broughams, overhead travelling crane, telephone to House, laundry and to the electric fire pumps. The electric current, which is 100 volts continuous, can be supplied direct from the dynamos, as well as from the 54 storage cells in the Battery Room, and which are of 1,200 amperes capacity."

Fred Dibnah would have had an orgasm! ?

Jaymack

Continuous current is DC without generator ripple as opposed to un-smoothed rectified DC which is really uni-polar pulses. From the era of the metre-amp rating for antennas for spark transmitters and electrostatic condensors measured in jars as opposed to pf - a trend that continued in the Admiaralty handbook until about 1920/

Progress in the last 100 yrs or so has been remarkable.  Bet they have a 3 phase or split phase feed now.

1905 electric Brougham. You can see the ancestry  from the horse drawn predecessor of the same name, the key shape being the driver not being in the cabin with the passengers, rather out front with a clear view of the non-existent horses.

Photo link from wikipedia.