500W charging board

[Neil Ashley]

My strange interest in war-time Generators has now lead to me aquiring a very rare Villiers 550watt Generator used with the Control Panel which is the subject of this thread (see attached photograh's).

The 550watt range judging by their rarity seem to have been the predecessor's of the 1260watt range which were used throughout the army and also for many years post-war.

I am looking for a manual for this set or any of the other 550watt or 1260watt range.

[Leon Hassing]

hello Neil,

since you are in to generators,
would you be interested in a Morris generator?
I have a acquaintance who wants to sel this working generator.
It even has a fully loaded spares box with it.

If you want any further info on it I can get you in contact with him.

here are some pics of it, they are not great because it is in a shed filled with interesting stuff.

All the best

Leon Hassing

[Neil Ashley]

Leon

Thanks for the offer but a little bit too big for me without what it originally went into. I am can however post these pictures on another Forum if you are happy.

If indeed Military I assume it came out of a workshop truck or similar but without knowing the voltage I cannot comment further. I assume we are looking at a Alternator with seperate excitor unit.

Unfortunately although this may be the only one of this model in existance, they do not attract much interest or value and there is probably already someone on this forum thinking can I break it to use the engine for my truck or LRC.

[Alan McGuinness]

At the other end of the scale were little 80W units such as this one http://www.oldengines.org.uk/page6.html

(And one for sale http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHARGING-S...item3f11f0f132)

[Neil Ashley]

They go even smaller than this such as the steam operated generators but these and the 80 watt were designed for specialist purposes and were not widely issued.

The 300 watt followed by the 550 and 1260 watt sets were the models manufactured by the thousand for army use. Its surprising the Living History Guys have not caught on to Battery Charging as part of their displays because every radio set not using dry batteries would have required a charger.

I am still looking for one of the 550 watt Charging Boards to go with this set.