Regulator, voltage
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- OBJECT TYPE
- GENERATOR/VIBRATING/AUTOMATIC
- DATE
- 1945
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1997.0648.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Delco-Remy
- MODEL
- 1118301
- LOCATION
- Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- STEEL BASE & CAP/ COPPER WIRING/ RUBBER GASKET & PARTS/ NICKLE CHROMIUM PARTS
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 14.8 cm
- Width
- 9.9 cm
- Height
- 7.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Motorized Ground Transportation
- Category
- Automotive engineering
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Delco
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- C. 1945
- Canada
-
FROMCOLLECTION OF AUTOMOBILE PTS & SERVICING EQ ACQUIRED BY MR. T.H. OLIVER, FATHER OF DONOR, DURING CAREER IN AUTOMOTIVE SERVICING. AFTER WORKING AT WILLYS-OVERLAND & FAIRBANKS-MORSE IN TORONTO, & IN AUTO GARAGE IN AURORA, IN 1931 HE BEGAN HIS OWN BUSINESS, ONE PART OF WHICH INVOLVED AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRICAL SERVICING. - Function
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ELECTRO-MAGNETIC SWITCHING DEVICE FOR CONTINUOUSLY MONITORING & ADJUSTING VOLTAGE & CURRENT OUTPUT OF GENERATOR USED TO PRODUCE ELECTRIC CURRENT IN INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE. - Technical
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COMPARATIVELY EARLY COMBINATION VOLTAGE & CURRENT REGULATOR, PART OF SOPHISTICATION TO WHICH ELECTRO-MAGNETIC REGULATORS ASPIRED IN 1940S PRIOR TO INTRODUCTION OF NON-ELECTRO-MAGNETIC REGULATING DEVICES. AUTO-ELECTRIC DC GENERATOR CAME TO MATURITY AS IT WAS ABOUT TO BE REPLACED BY ALTERNATOR (AC) TECHNOLOGY (REF. 1). - Area Notes
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Unknown
Details
- Markings
- RAISED LETTERING ON CAP READING "Delco-Remy/ MADE IN CANADA"/ INCISED "118301-6V-N" ON BASE/ CW TAG READING IN SCRIPT "DR Reg. 301/ or 242/ $13.75/.75 Credit on/ salvage regulator"
- Missing
- APPEARS COMPLETE
- Finish
- GALVANIZED BASE/ GLOSSY BLACK PAINTED CAP/ METALLIC PARTS
- Decoration
- N/A
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Delco-Remy, Regulator, voltage, circa 1945, Artifact no. 1997.0648, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1997.0648.001/
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