Any ideas....?

[sythai]

Evening Chaps..... Just wondering when this would date from ? Any ideas please.

Thanks Sy

 

[telectrix]

what???

 

[sythai]

what???

should be picture attached above with post?

 

[Des 56]

3 O'Clock on June 27th 1930

 

[sythai]

Thanks Des...bit of antique electrics then

 

[Des 56]

Thanks Des...bit of antique electrics then

It was also very very common
I have been ripping some of it out since the late sixties lol

 

[Marvo]

It's VIR wiring in wooden casing. They used this way to run it around door frames and skirtings.

http://asad31.webs.com/Asad_Wiring-system.pdf

 

[sythai]

First time I've come across it..... only been in this game for the last 12 years though

 

[Geordie Spark]

Evening Chaps..... Just wondering when this would date from ? Any ideas please.

Thanks Sy

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That lawn could do with a good feeding.

 

[telectrix]

1930's mini trunking. lay in the cable then nail the lid on.

 

[Silly Sausage]

1930's mini trunking. lay in the cable then nail the lid on.

I was wondering how they drilled such long holes!

 

[Marvo]

I was wondering how they drilled such long holes!

They tied the wires to a specially trained woodworm

 

[Geordie Spark]

I was wondering how they drilled such long holes!

Long drills Archie ....... long drills..

 

[Silly Sausage]

I suppose the Chinese equivalent would be bamboo.

 

[ipf]

Nowt wrong with 'capping and casing' and vir.......we had to be joiners, too.