Hi Roy
On (07 Sep 96) Roy J. Tellason wrote to Jim Dunmyer...
 RJ> What the heck is a "delco light plant"?
I don't know either! But guessing is fun so here goes.
Delco as in Delco Remy who in the 1930s were tops in small dynamo [DC]
technology. Most US Army motor vehicles here in WW2 used Delco items.
Remote farms in Australia, then used 32v DC systems. Big battery, a
small diesel engine and a dynamo. The diesel would be started around sunset 
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top up the battery, run the toaster and maybe the vacuum cleaner. Lamp globes
were readily available in sizes 12watts, 25, 40, 60 etc and voltages 12v, 24
and 32. At bed time or earlier the engine would be shut off. Refrigerators
were usually kerosene driven and hot water was obtained from a "back boiler"
integrated with the kitchen [wood burning] cooker.
Bathrooms usually had a
"chip heater" which was a water jacketted cylinder with wood fire inside. It
would be loaded up and run for just an hour or so, giving sufficient water to
share a bathfull among several people. Babies, then daughters, then Mum, then
sons, and Dad probably last of all as he shed the most dirt into the rather
black water that remained for his use.
There are some HOMEPOWER messages there, in our local history!  Cheers...ALEC
... ........BUNDANOON, on a dirt track leading to the Info Superhighway
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