First edition of wiring regs 1882!

[HappyHippyDad]

Just found these and intend to frame them in the office!!

 

[tazz]

Can remember the Butlins Chalets being wired the same.....left hand side neutral , right hand side live...and bare copper down the centre...and each charlet being tapped off in 15a singles with cloth coated rubber insulation......all were finally demolished in 1998....original install was 1941

 

[Darkwood]

Do you still have the test cert on file Tazz?

 

[tazz]

LOL Darkwood....don`t think they pass the 15th edition let alone any other.....remember most of the rubber had turned into dust ...leaving 3 bare cables across the apex of the roof...!!!
only insulator ..was the wooden roof itself...

 

[GLENNSPARK]

Can remember the Butlins Chalets being wired the same.....left hand side neutral , right hand side live...and bare copper down the centre...and each charlet being tapped off in 15a singles with cloth coated rubber insulation......all were finally demolished in 1998....original install was 1941

well...that was a long time ago there tazz....

 

[Guest111]

Brush joints and Bellhanger joints as well,got then all in a book somewhere.

 

[Guest111]

None of your MFT's back then lol,remember an old spark testing an earth once,drummond lamp between live and the "earth" in question,if the lamp lit the earth was good.

 

[Guest111]

Look at reg 15,All indoor cables should be protected with insulation,so that's why the wool monkeys insist on burying them in fibreglass,they're just following the old regs.

 

[tazz]

well...that was a long time ago there tazz....

Still wired like that till they were demolished

 

[Engineer54]

In the days of that first Reg's edition and well beyond, the electricians went to work in a suit and bowler and apprentices walked at least 3 paces behind the electrician. Gentlemen of the trades as they were known, such was the status of the electricians of the time!! ...lol They had to be among other things, competent at pipe bending and needed to be virtually a carpenter in their own right. Now you're virtually treated as semi skilled in the building game!! How times change, well in the UK anyway, ....elsewhere electricians are still respected as the senior trade!!

 

[jimmymac]

In the days of that first Reg's edition and well beyond, the electricians went to work in a suit and bowler and apprentices walked at least 3 paces behind the electrician. Gentlemen of the trades as they were known, such was the status of the electricians of the time!! ...lol They had to be among other things, competent at pipe bending and needed to be virtually a carpenter in their own right. Now you're virtually treated as semi skilled in the building game!! How times change, well in the UK anyway, ....elsewhere electricians are still respected as the senior trade!!

I don't know about anybody else's opinion but I feel like it's a constant struggle to be recognised as a skilled tradesmen. There always seems to be someone trying to disrespect you. It's often other trades who seem to think they know all there is to know about every aspect of construction, maintenance & repair

 

[telectrix]

If you look closely at the bottom you can see Telectrix's signature

cheeky twot. i wasn't born till the 3rd edition.lol. ( can't asdd smiley, forum won't let me ).

 

[Engineer54]

cheeky twot. i wasn't born till the 3rd edition.lol.

So you did at least go to work in a suit and bowler then Tel... lol!!

 

[telectrix]

suits are for weddings and funerals, eng. ties are for holding yer pants up. and isn't a bowler something to do with why engalnd got thrashed in oz.?

 

[jimmymac]

suits are for weddings and funerals, eng. ties are for holding yer pants up. and isn't a bowler something to do with why engalnd got thrashed in oz.?

for most scousers suits are worn exclusively for court appearances