What is this a photo of?

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A (nice) fuse box!

Ciao, Ale.

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three-phase current fuse box

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Well, I'm not sure, but the image is titled, "Fuseboard" :slight_smile:

From an incomplete electrical panel.
It only has wires connected to one of the bottom terminals.
Fuse bus wires are missing.

That's what I think it is, but maybe someone else has other ideas or other information.

I agree with @paulpaulson
3 Phase fuse board with some very nice wiring.
it's not energized as yet but it belongs to a fusebox

The final wiring of L1,L2 and L3 is missing.

'Something' generated by ChatGPT.

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Could be fuses, sure. My first thought was gas tube protectors. The bend radius on the wires is too small in places.

@PerryBebbington The white circles are a ceramic fuse cover with a glass window, the fuse covers screw and retain a cartridge fuse between the copper bus and the yellow circuit wire. The end of the cartridge fuse has a "pip indicator" that falls away when the fuse is blown. It looks as though the top left fuse holder may be blown or empty of a cartridge.

Ah! Happy memories of my days with BT, where Strowger exchange bus bars were bare 15cm wide copper plates a good 8mm thick, stacked six deep, and carrying almost unimaginable (to me) currents.

Horror stories of the painter who rested his paint can across a set...

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I have seen similar and it is truly horrifying

Yes, similar stories involving various tools. Don't know if they were true. Never saw a scorched bus bar, even less a melted spanner or whatever. I don't think the -50V bars were bare though, they had blue plastic covering.

Where did you work? I was around Nottingham.

Nottingham Derby area

Which exchanges?
When?

As an electrician at a factory in Spondon

I was an AEE in BT HQ in Central London, but had to supervise installations around the country - Sheffield, Guildford, Lancaster, Keybridge.

Hated it - too slow-moving. Left after two years.

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Finished my time as an electronic/electrical tech in Tennessee , pretty much no difference between countries

@PerryBebbington I wasn't sure if "when' was directed at me or not but it was early 70's

Ah! As we have already mentioned BT and telephone exchanges I thought maybe that's where you worked. Thanks for the clarification. 'Factory in Spondon' British Celanese? Before it exploded?