Delco Lighting Generator
When I was a little kid growing up in the
Berkshires during the Second World War, we had no electrical power from the
grid until about 1946 after the war ended. For part of this time we used
kerosene lamps for light, and I can remember doing my homework by kerosene lamp
light when I first started elementary school.
Sometime roundabout 1943 or so, my father
installed a gasoline driven, 32-volt DC, Delco generator to provide light and
minimal electrical power. I recently found a link describing the type of unit
we had. I can still remember the tremendous noise it made when it was run to
charge the batteries. It scared the bejesus out of my mother.
My father built our house in Savoy, Massachusetts
in 1939-40 with the help of trade aware friends, and they wired the house for
electricity, when it became available.
The house and land now belong to my nephew Jeff
and his family who have modernized the house and brought it up to modern
standards.
http://www.delcolight.com/index.html
Ray Gruszecki
July 18, 2022
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