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Old 15th Apr 2018, 4:28 pm   #1
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I'm relishing this 1926-7 booklet /catalogue so much that I'm tempted to make a PDF of all 72 pages sooner or later in order that the whole can be available for anyone to enjoy, but meanwhile here are a few highlights. First, the front cover showing dolly's feet being scorched by an electric fire: then, how to make toast without a toaster: third, the (very) electric bathroom; and, finally, a variety of electic radiator that I've not come across in the flesh. I'm not sure whether its quoted weight of 226 lbs. applies before or after it's filled with water.

"[T]he complete cost of running an ordinary middle class house on electricity in the average town is only between £30 and £40. On this basis, it is obviously quite feasible either to dispense with one servant or to do without one altogether, thus saving anything up to £150 per year. It means that there are no gas or coal bills, and the decorators will come round once in seven years instead of once in three years. It means that all the electric services - heat, light, air, cooking, ironing, hot water, etc.- can be obtained at an instant's notice, at any time, without trouble. It means, virtually, complete domestic emancipation."

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Old 15th Apr 2018, 5:30 pm   #2
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Just watch where you put that toasting fork , Madam.

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Please do scan!
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Old 15th Apr 2018, 8:33 pm   #4
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I too await the completed PDF with interest.
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Old 16th Apr 2018, 5:22 pm   #5
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I feel cold just looking at that electric fire in the bathroom...
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Old 16th Apr 2018, 7:01 pm   #6
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Sales blokes locked in a meeting to come up with "advantages" generate this sort of thing.
Leaving the door of the fridge open is air conditioning - for a few feet at least.
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At least no "Elf and Safety" in the bathroom then?

Still,if it gets rid of one servant,I will go for it!
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Old 20th Apr 2018, 7:57 pm   #8
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I cannot wait to see the full booklet!
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Likewise!
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Old 30th May 2018, 10:27 am   #10
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Just watch where you put that toasting fork , Madam.
Reminds me of a tragic/funny story my Nan told me - her good neighbour was not there on one visit (back in the 50's) and I asked here where she was? Nan explained she was dead because 'her toaster was not very good at pushing the toast out so she often used to fish it out with a butter knife - this was all OK when she used her old bone handled knives but one day she decided to use the nice new stainless cutlery she'd just bought. Her son found her dead the next day 'still holding onto the knife'.
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I may have mentioned this before but here goes. As a small boy I once poked my mums knitting needle into the belling convector. I am 61 now but that experience will stay with me till I die. But that's not all, once I had recovered my dad gave me a right pasting, not for almost killing myself but for buggering the heater up.
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Reminds me of an old cooker manual of my parents I found when clearing out dad's old place. I was at a loss for the temperature settings on recipes till someone mentioned that the temperatures could be in degree kelvin. As I don't remember the cooker, it could be circa 1946 .
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An electric radiator filled with water!

My other half has a faux newspaper purporting to be from the year 2000 which was actually printed as a gimic in about 1928 to publicise the ideal home exhibition. Wait till you see that, it will get scanned eventually. The 'aerocars' in use look like vickers vimy's, and the road going motor cars show no imagination whatsoever- the headlamps haven't even receded into the wings. It does have an article on using the channel tunnel for holidays though. Some very interesting hits and misses.

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Immersion heaters to fit ordinary radiators are still available - mainly for use with heated towel rails in the summer months.
I have a book from a slightly earlier period which makes similar predictions, not least that as motor-cars become more popular, and roads improve, 'every man will become his one engine driver, with a station just outside his front door'.
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Old 7th Jun 2018, 3:39 pm   #15
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Seeing this post reminded me of a similar project near where I live where the whole idea was tried out.
http://www.historyworld.co.uk/housing.php?opt=1930s&h=7
It is known locally and was recently sympathetically restored.
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