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CAn anyone tell me what a dynamo attendant would actually do?

Dynamo attendant (1900's)

I put that into the search engine and got a whole load of answers.
I did not know really what yuear you are after, so go on.... have a bash.
Good luck.
Deanna X

Hi

He would have worked a machine that converted mechanical,
energy into electrical energy, the full name for dynamo was,
Dynamo electric machine.

Ray

He could have worked for a private company or a public supply, depending on the date, but if it was a dynamo, most likely a factory.

When I were a young lad, our street was on, IIRC, 200 volts as the power supply originally came from the brewery.

Some of the equipment e.g. bulbs, were sold locally for that voltage.
In the early 1950s it was switched to the standard 240 volts and the electricity company paid to replace the 200 volt stuff.

Thank you all, this was on the 1911 census, so I will look this up as Deanna suggests.

Where we lived in west ham the declared voltage was 200 volts AC, but the actual was often as low as 175 volts.....it was as Brian says upgraded to the standard 240 volts some time after the war, when west ham was re built after being mostly flattened by a certain corporals' lufwaffe....and rockets.

Bob