FAO: John D...wylex standard colours

[Adam_151]

Found this on another forum

It would seem that cream doesn't mean its from the '80s onwards...

 

[breezer]

look the hand has a "new fangled" light up screwdriver, isnt technology amazing

 

[MR-DIAZ]

And look at the micro electrical insulation on the light up screwdriver that will come in very handy when you accidentally touch those protruding incoming phase and neutral terminals

 

[securespark]

That's a very strange angle to screw at...

BTW, they still have the same phone number today, even the code, WYT (which is short for Wythenshawe), is the same!

 

[securespark]

Hi Adam

You say it's not from the mid-80's, but have you got a date for that advertisement?

 

[MR-DIAZ]

No no no didn-t you know why a screwdriver is tapered at the end !!! it´s to screw sideways

On the packet the instructions say when screwing right side terminals stop before you get to the 9 o´clock position and when screwing left sided terminals stop before you get to the 3 o´clock position, when you got more than two terminal in a row stop before you get to 3 o´clock and o´clock or change the screwdriver for a all new singing and dancing special neon screwdriver that do every position and every test.

 

[Lectrician]

There is still nothing to say that brown wasn't in use first, and THEN the white model was brought out, but carried along side the brown.

 

[DESL]

I reckon advert is from 60's by the style of pictures and also note no sleeving on cpc

 

[JohnD]

Thanks!

An interesting piece of memorabilia!

That one also has the moulded back, not the wooden frame, so is the later design. I wonder how long cream and brown were on the market together.

I see the incoming terminals at the top of the main switch are exposed and constantly live - later, plastic shrouds were fitted, and I still have a few shrouds that Wylex sent me some years ago to retrofit to old CUs.

 

[Adam_151]

Yeah, as someone else said, I'd dated it as late 50's - early '60s from the 'style' and the fact that no earth sleeving puts it pre-14th (1966) unless I've got muddled?

Double screws on the outgoing terminals... theres a good feature that doesn't exist on new stuff much

 

[kai]

The Twin Screws is a feature missed nowadays, does anyone know when was the requirement for twin screws abolished? It seems a step backwards, when loose connections seem more a problem nowadays!

Why did they make fuse boxes with wooden backs in the old days? just wondering.

 

[JohnD]

Yeah, as someone else said, I'd dated it as late 50's - early '60s from the 'style' and the fact that no earth sleeving puts it pre-14th (1966) unless I've got muddled?

Back in 1976 when I were a lad, the sheathing was green, and the Wylexes were Cream except the grey metalclad ones.

So I still reckon the brown ones to be dreadfully old! I've never seen a brown Wylex CU with a plastic back.

 

[plugwash]

BTW, they still have the same phone number today

well apart from the added 1 of course.

but yeah other than the introduction of the extra 1 i don't belive manchester numbers have changed since the introductino of subscriber trunk dialing.