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2 days ago · Advice: UK Steam Era Loco Lamp Placement Guide. We hope that you find this information useful. It has been written by modellers, for modellers. We’ve done our best to verify all information it may contain and all ideas, recommendations or techniques within it have, where possible, also been “tried and tested” by experienced modellers.
22 hours ago · For those who want to learn about locomotive electrical systems, or teach the staff and volunteers at their museum about electrical print reading and troubleshooting, there is a convenient and useful set of booklets called “Tracing Physical Schematic Wiring Diagrams”, produced over a span of several decades by EMD.
5 days ago · Gas lighting was introduced in 1819, the lamps being lit from sunset to sunrise, except during the three summer months. In 1833 there were 225 gas lamps. Electric streetlighting gradually replaced gas; there were 5 electric lamps in 1892, and only 100, out of a total of 2,000 street-lights, in 1931. After the city's take-over of the electricity ...
3 days ago · The routes were electrified in 1892, Walsall being one of the first towns in the country to have electric trams; the public service was opened at the beginning of 1893. The undertaking passed under the control of the British Electric Traction Co. Ltd. in 1897 and of Walsall corporation in 1901; it continued to be leased to an operating company ...
5 days ago · Home. Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840. A biographical dictionary of English furniture makers of the period 1640 to 1860. Many of the main furniture trades are included, as are furniture dealers. British History Online (no series). This free content was digitised by double rekeying. All rights reserved. Citation:
1 day ago · An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a filament that is heated until it glows. The filament is enclosed in a glass bulb that is either evacuated or filled with inert gas to protect the filament from oxidation.
4 days ago · B.E.F. (British Electric Foundation) are a band/production company formed by former Human League members Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh who later became Heaven 17 (with lead singer Glenn Gregory).
