anybody know what this old vintage electrical item is ?

[turbo1600]

does anyone know what this is ?
info on tag seems to say :

amalgamated -------- ( australia ) sydney nsw ..



and the number seems to be , maybe : b54392
?

 

[Wilko]

Hi - as a Sydney boy, its likely the company is AWA, Amalgamated Wireless Australasia. This company was a very well regarded manufacturer of electrical equipment and goods. It had its that head office and a plant off Parramatta Rd in Homebush. Here’s a link to a bit of their history -

AWA Technology Services - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As to the item in your pic, I’ll hazard a guess that it’s a high voltage device (lovely set of insulators there) and it was oil filled so possibly a capacitor (?).

 

[DPG]

Oil filled transformer?

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Yes, does look like an oilfilled transformer, although the application is hard to tell without more data. It could be a potential transformer for an instrument, as it has a pair of terminals with knurled screws rather than studs and nuts, although I think I can see other terminals in the far corner.

 

[Micktw68]

Looks like an oil filled transformer. (3.3kv) We used a very similar item for workshop testing bushings when I worked for the LEB