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Electrical specification in sales particulars. When and where?

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 “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."

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    Acetylene light was fairly popular back in day. If properly installed and used it give a good light at a lower cost than private electricity generating plant.

    The acetylene generator was invariably fully automatic, giving a constant gas pressure at any load.

    Alternatives included petrol vapour which was surprisingly safe. The vapour was produced in a central generator and piped around the house to be burnt in standard gas lighting equipment. Older members may recall the wartime film “How went the day” in which a petrol vapour lighting plant is depicted, though not accurately.

    “Hollow wire lighting” was popular in the USA, less so here. This used liquid fuel under pressure from a central pressure tank, distributed via microbore copper tube.  The lamps vapourised the fuel and worked as a modern pressure lantern does, but with the pressure tank remote instead of built into each lamp. Dangerous, but very bright with the largest lamps being equivalent to 1,000 watts of electric light.

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    Acetylene light was fairly popular back in day. If properly installed and used it give a good light at a lower cost than private electricity generating plant.

    The acetylene generator was invariably fully automatic, giving a constant gas pressure at any load.

    Alternatives included petrol vapour which was surprisingly safe. The vapour was produced in a central generator and piped around the house to be burnt in standard gas lighting equipment. Older members may recall the wartime film “How went the day” in which a petrol vapour lighting plant is depicted, though not accurately.

    “Hollow wire lighting” was popular in the USA, less so here. This used liquid fuel under pressure from a central pressure tank, distributed via microbore copper tube.  The lamps vapourised the fuel and worked as a modern pressure lantern does, but with the pressure tank remote instead of built into each lamp. Dangerous, but very bright with the largest lamps being equivalent to 1,000 watts of electric light.

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