Anderson Remy generator
date: label: date made
content: ca 1945
name: label: maker
content: Remy Indiana Electric Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: An automobile starting motor for 6 volt system. A section of the side has been cut away so that the armature and field poles are visible. Body of the starter is painted black. The armature has a gear assembly on one end and a pinion on the other. The commutator and brushes are set inside the main casing, while the gear assembly and the distributor assembly are set in a pot metal casing outside the main steel casing. The pot metal is beginning to disintegrate. A thin steel band is clamped around the outside of the steel casing over the brushes. Spring-loaded brushes made of carbon. Reference: Groenenjijk Catalog page 20 ( In accession papers), item 5h-39 of "Dutch Collection". "Startdynamo met onderbreker in doorsnede startmotor" (Starter alternator with circuit breaker [distributor] in starter motor cross-section). Nameplate reads: "Anderson REMY Indiana Electric Co. / Model 950 B Volts 6 Serial no. 100 / Patents Pending".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Work and Industry: Electricity
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: EM.216300.04
label: accession number
content: 216300
label: catalog number
content: 216300.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Generator
label: Other Terms
content: Generator; Motors and Generators
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 4 1/2 in x 13 in; 20.32 cm x 11.43 cm x 33.02 cm