Vintage electrical device picture puzzle

[telectrix]

what's more to the point is who gets in the bath with her?

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Indeed, pressing the maid's button too much can land you in hot water. Or as someone phrased it the other day, ho****er. < see what I did there?

Now on a more electrical note, who under the age of 25 can answer me this: What's a 50 C.P. metal lamp (as shown on that little label?)

 

[Barry White]

OK, so what if there's only one maid, and she's in the bath. She pushes her own button, what happens next? Who gets the ding-dong?

Ive heard talesmg_smile: that maids often pushed there own buttons.

ps I am over 50 and still had to think hard about the 50 CP

 

[GB.Kayak]

Indeed, pressing the maid's button too much can land you in hot water. Or as someone phrased it the other day, ho****er. < see what I did there?

Now on a more electrical note, who under the age of 25 can answer me this: What's a 50 C.P. metal lamp (as shown on that little label?)

I am well over 25, nearer the age of the last (?) poster ... it took some searches on Google until I came up with the right 'angle' on the answer.

 

[ackbarthestar]

I came up with a Ronny Barker at 4s 9d although you got a better deal at 7d for 16 CP

 

[Besoeker]

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Carriage lamp.......I think.
A friend and I made the wooden base for display purposes.

 

[rapparee]

Candle power?

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Yes, and they said 'metal lamp' because at that time tungsten was not the only metallic filament in use. It was the opposite of carbon lamp which was standard and much less efficient. Because lamps were sold by C.P. output, not by power consumption in watts, the dimmer was given one C.P. rating for metal filaments and one for carbon, which corresponded to the same circuit wattage of around 60W.

If you look at a lamp of that age you will often find the rating given in the form 230-16, meaning 230V 16 C.P.

 

[Besoeker]

Candle power?

Paraffin.