Battery charger
Rectifier used for charging 1-3 storage cells. Input voltage 220 volts. Recommended tubes: Philips 451 and 452. In this picture the 328 and 452 tubes are used. Made by N.V. Transformer-Works, Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 40 in Amsterdam. This firm also made the battery eliminator "Transforma".
Data                                         Tubes
Made in: 1929
Purchased in: 2009

 

Assembly room of the Transforma factory, Baarsjesweg 158, Amsterdam in 1927. Later that year the company would move to Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 40. A number of new transformers is visible on the table, behind the workers. Child labour was still common.
Advertisement in Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, September 23rd, 1929

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