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]

 

[tazz]

Not much info on history of enemalta, since your post , I`ve asked old friends I worked with in Malta, family still there, and there just isn`t much. I can only suggest the would have been imported from uk. So mem etc would be best search

 

[R G]

Looking at the mis placed digits and the difference in the readings something has happened to it since then , I would check by the serial nos that its the same meter also , as this meter has 6 digits and the old reading is 4 , it wouldn't surprise me if things get misplaced over there by what I've heard...

 

[silver1410]

You best all get used to me being here and picking your brains as I deal with stuff like this every day over here ................

Oh and for the record I don't get paid for it LOL but I help people so it's all good

 

[silver1410]

Okay RG those were the readings I posted, sorry, not the units. so 5166 should have been recorded as 005166?

 

[davesparks]

If it's been fixed to a wall whilst major building works have been going on around it then my best guess would be that the vibrations etc have caused the dials to move.

That or a ghost has been sitting there spinning the wheel round for fun.

 

[silver1410]

If it's been fixed to a wall whilst major building works have been going on around it then my best guess would be that the vibrations etc have caused the dials to move.

That or a ghost has been sitting there spinning the wheel round for fun.

No it was placed in a box and forgotten about. I really need to find a manufacturer

 

[Knobhead]

As for the history of the meter Ferranti (Stockport) springs to mind.

All our private supplies had similar meters. (The company had a huge estate of villages and farms fed from our two power stations.)

It would be of great help to me if the OP could take a better photograph of the meter as I have a special interest in the history of our once glorious trade.

 

[tazz]

Think you on the right lines Tony....Just being looking at old Ferranti meters, and they match in looks better then any others I can think of....but can`t find type A52

 

[silver1410]

Hi Tony. I am trying to get better pictures of the meter, which they have hopefully stored.

 

[silver1410]

It wouldn't be Siemens?

 

[tazz]

If you could put some more photos up of your meter, this would help us

 

[shaunfriend]

A quick google brings up A52 | Electric International

 

[DPG]

Very interesting RG

This meter was installed in a hole in the wall pub years upon years ago. I have records dating back to 1993 and beyond. It basically had 4 tables and the consumption was a trickle and continued to be so till the owners demolished it in 2005 and the powers that be came to disconnect the meter, before it was demolished obviously LOL
Somehow from that meter being put into storage and all but forgotten about and 2012 when the new smart meters were issued, this meter went from 5164 units to wait for it 690427.6

I would be so incredibly grateful if any of you could shed some light on this.

I think I might be missing something here, but are you saying you think the meter has increased its reading on its own while stored in a box and completely disconnected? I'm not sure even the manufacturer would be able to explain this one! Daz

 

[frontier219]

I think I might be missing something here, but are you saying you think the meter has increased its reading on its own while stored in a box and completely disconnected? I'm not sure even the manufacturer would be able to explain this one! Daz

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!

 

[Silly Sausage]

This is probably an absurd theory, .....................

Correct!