> What the heck is a "delco light plant"?
 
Shoot, that's easy. My folks had one back on the farm. They got rid
of it back about 1937 or so when the grid came to the farms in Nebr.
 
I was only about 6 or 7 then but the way I remember it, it was a
little 2 or maybe 4 cylinder gas engine that ran a 32 volt generator
to produce lights. I can still remember my dad and somebody else
carrying the durn thing up and out of the basement where it sat for
so long. Basically speaking, it wasn't much different than the
little portable generators we see on the market today except that
it was a lot bigger and didn't produce near the power some of those
little ones do today.
 
Bill Bauer
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