Electric sockets?

[Aly Jones]

I was making sure because I thought you were correcting me. I thought Brackets had nothing to do with electric sockets. So I thought the Image was wrong and you were correcting me on it . So I asked you that question' that is all. Just a little confused' now I understand.

[Eric K. Longo]

Hi Aly,

No, not at all. I was just linking you information discussing what you showed in your pic.

Best wishes,
Eric

[Eric K. Longo]

Hi Again,

What am I saying - the complaints about no sockets aboard Mauretania were about the bathrooms. And I believe some were added 1928 or so.

Eric

[Aly Jones]

Hi Eric & all,

Were the Olympic class liners were the first to be installed with electric power plugs?

[Titanic_Malaysia]

Just curious, while the Titanic and its siblings have electric sockets in the rooms and public areas, what type of appliances were available for guests or staff to use, back in 1912?

I know that the bedside lamps are connected to the plugs but what else can utilize the power supply as well?

[Aly Jones]

Maybe having electric lamps were the most luxury thing they had back in 1912 and that electric plugs were put in their for one reason only? I had heard that Titanics luxury were better than most people had at home. But I will stand corrected If anyone else knows about any other electrical appliances that were used on Titanic.

[Atlantic1912]

Did Titanic have electric plug sockets in the rooms of the passengers? .

The answer for this part of your question is yes, did the passengers have any use for them? I don't know.

[VW1956]

Hello all. Thanks for the input on this question. If the passegers had no need of sockets now then I would have thought that the designers would have realised that such things would be needed in the future and so fit sockets in 1911 and not have to have Titanic brought back to have them fitted at a later date. I bet they didn't have an earth wire fitted back then as Health and Safety had not been heard of. The early Hornby train sets were powered by the mains and not as they are today with a transformer. This was mains power, 240 volts. The little children playing with there toy train on a toy track with nothing to stop them from getting fried. Another power source to power the toy trains was a dynamo powered by mains water but the water board soon stopped that one. Ken.

[VW1956]

Hello Aly. Did you manage to find why it was called "Bayonet". It is a generic name given to some thing that to connect it you would have to push it as opposed to turning it which is normally called "Screw fitting". Ken.

[Aly Jones]

No I never knew that. Must be an English team then ken' cause I never knew this and never heard of Bayonet word in Australia before.

[VW1956]

Hello. I was looking at a wardrobe from cabin C82 on Olympic and I noticed this brass plate attatched to the side of it. As can be seen it has two switches which I am led to believe were light switches and just below the switches is a hole which I am told was for an electric socket. I would guess that the way it has been fitted makes me think this was not done during the original build but at a later refit. Nice to see though. Ken.

[VW1956]

Hello, This is the picture that should have gone with my previous post. Doh!!!. Ken.

[Aly Jones]

HI Ken,

Nice photograph.

When the ships were first built I do believe that there were power points. There's pictures taken from father browns photo album that shows power plugs. Maybe the picture you had posted was indeed power sockets place in later for an upgrade of the original power sockets?

Ps- power plugs / power points /power sockets all mean the same thing.

[Atlantic1912]

Hi Ken. Maybe the top switch was for a light and the lower controlled the socket?

[VW1956]

Hello Atlantic1912. You are probably right in what you say. I wish now that I had looked inside the wardrobe to see if there were any marks of where the cables went to from the switches. Ken.