Picture of the week!™

[RF Lighting]

Well folks, it's that time of the week again!

This week I have quite a few pictures for you.

It is a generator house. I beleive they are AC driven DC generators for powering arc lighting.

An impressive bit of engineering.

I'll let you see for yourself.

I've titled what I can, but this stuff is a little out of my league.


This door lets you step into the past....

Control panel:

Motor starter?

Generator:

Another generator and it's controller:

Simplex fuse box for the 400V two phase supply to one of the generators

Cover open:

A thingy:

Stators:

Think this is the DC supply from the generator:

Some wiring on the back of the control panel:

AC motor supply:

Think this is an oil filled overload pot:

Rating plate on what I think is a contactor / overload:

Wires:

Rating plate on one of the motors:

DC fuses:

Meters:

Changeover switch in the middle of the control panel with it's cover open:

Hope you're viewing this on broadband!

 

[tim west]

The Thingy looks like a DC faceplate starter

 

[mattylad]

Looks wonderful, I bet a museum would love it all

 

[radioredcat]

I wouldn't like to apply power to that lot,Impessive though.

It reminds me of the old selsyn systems we had when i worked in a glass bottle factory many years ago.

It's nice to think we are a lot safer these days.

andy

 

[Chri5]

Some vandal wrote "RFL" on the motor

Time warp room, the quality of the work must have been something to behold when it was new (judged as a between the wars build).

Where was it, Westinghouse are famed for supplies for rail and tube.

 

[RF Lighting]

It was a theatre in Leeds.

It was built in 1878, so the generators being installed around wartime is quite possible.

 

[Symptoms]

Looks like the stuff you might find back-stage on Sing-Sing's Death Row. Nice to see not a nasty bit of Chinese plastic anywhere ... good, solid British engineering!

 

[tim west]

Got those light fixtures working yet

 

[RF Lighting]

Having done a little research, it seems this setup was probably installed to supply the lamp for a cinema projector.

The assembly room to the rear of the main theatre enjoyed a spell as a 'gentlemans' cinema

 

[RF Lighting]

Got those light fixtures working yet

Do you mean the wall-e ones?

 

[tim west]

yep, if so got any pics of them working? Are they good?

 

[toasty]

Really nice pictures. I love all that old stuff, reminds me of some books I've got here of the old US subway substations.

I dunno what it is, but old electrical gear has something, a certain character that modern stuff just doesn't have.

Thanks for the pictures.
-Dan

 

[jeepmadmike]

thats not that old, well ok it is but its very unusual to find it in place still, should almost have a preservation notice on it

I known of a motor generator set which is still in use!

loving the open slip rings easy to inspect brush wear.

the motor generators look pre war (wwII) but it might be because it was just an old design. switch gear of that design was about from the early thirtys till the late 60's

 

[securespark]

RF: I'm in awe at the size of your thingy - it's really impressive!!

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Is that a piece of asbestos with a jagged hole in it I see before me?