Old age meter

[silver1410]

I wonder if there is anyone here who has seen a meter this old and who can give me an idea of a manufacturer I could contact who possibly made meters like this, way back then.

I am not savvy in this field.

[FONT=Calibri, Segoe UI, Meiryo, Microsoft YaHei UI, Microsoft JhengHei UI, Malgun Gothic, sans-serif]How many meters are in existence that record in excess of 99999.9 (ie 5 digits before the decimal)?[/FONT]

[FONT=Calibri, Segoe UI, Meiryo, Microsoft YaHei UI, Microsoft JhengHei UI, Malgun Gothic, sans-serif]Is it perhaps possible that the last digit, in the white box (6) is separate from the reading, which strangely has 6 digits before the decimal point. The numbers I can make out are 6904, the last two perhaps 27

This meter was installed by my records in 1901 LOL though if you look closely you can see I think a feint 1981 though it may be a zero

I would really appreciate any input on this, just call me Miss Marple LOL[/FONT]

 

[Knobhead]

This is probably an absurd theory, but I've heard of people with older meters, breaking into them and putting magnets in there to slow down the wheel. If somebody had done this, would the meter have continued to run (or, more likely, run backwards past 0) and given the strange reading. Then, to explain why it isn't still going, the box it was in was dropped, thus displacing the magnet?

Like I say, total pie in the sky so don't shoot me down too quickly!

I do know how to “fiddle” the electromechanical meters without even breaking the seals. If you think I’m going to write a DIY guide to it, think again!

PS, get it wrong, the meter speeds up.

 

[R G]

By what I know of Malta , and i lived there for a couple of years and what others have told me , the leccy meters were at one time considered fair game for tampering the also included water meters as well , I got asked by someone once over there about ways , I declined to answer ...