Restoration Challenge Lister Bruston, a working paper

Nov. 2015
We received an email from a vintage club in Wiltshire, UK. They are also restoring a very similar Bruston light plant. On their request we post a few images of our Lister Bruston with some detail.
Assistance from the UK is offered in case we need any help during our restoration activities. Thanks for this, we may need it!

Dec. 2015
We have little technical description of the Lister Bruston Lighting Plant in our museum. Available technical description on the internet will be our guide during the restoration process. Documents found sofar, see the below.

1902	Patent No.: 6666 in 1902 Method of using one coil to take the place of two coils in a two pole DC motor Mawdsley's Ltd. Dursley, Gloucestershire (source: Dursley Glos Web)
1909	Patent: GB190813185A -- 1909-06-21 Improvements in and relating to Devices for Operating Automatic Switches applicable for use with Electric Transformers Leo Sunderland and Gilbert Cecil Pillinger, 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, London S.W. (source: EPO and referenced in patent GB190929944(A))
1910	Patent: GB190929944(A)--1910-12-22 Improvements in the Electrical and Automatic Control of Engines, Dynamos and Batteries Leo Sunderland and Gilbert Cecil Pillinger, 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, London S.W. (source: EPO)
1912	R.A. Lister & Co. Ltd. advertised their Automatic Electric Lighting Plant which could be seen at their Westminster premises, 47 Victoria Street, London S.W.
1913	Patent: US1054368(A)--1913-02-25 Electric and Automatic Control of Engines, Dynamos and Batteries Leo Sunderland and Gilbert Cecil Pillinger of Westminster, London S.W. (source: USPO)
1913	Article from The Engineer (source: Grace's Guide to British Industrial Heritage)
1913	Patent: GB191207375(A)--1913-03-26 Improvements in the Electric and Automatic Control of Engines, Dynamos and Batteries Leo Sunderland and Gilbert Cecil Pillinger, 39 Victoria Street, Westminster, London S.W. (source: EPO)
1913	Patent GB191211486A--1913-05-14 Improved method of and Means for Closing Electric Circuits Gilbert Cecil Pillinger and Leo Sunderland (source: EPO)
1915	Lighting the Lister Way, The Belt Driven Type Plant R.A. Lister & Co Limited, London Office: 47 Victoria Street, Westminster, London S.W. (source: Internet archive)
1916	Bruston Automatic Electric Lighting & Power Co.,Inc. advertised their Bruston Plant in The Electrical Experimenter, April 1916

Jan. 2016
In the beginning of the year we start tinkering the electrical part of the Lister Bruston Automatic Lighting & Power System. Documents found last month should be a good start, with focus on patent 29944 from the year 1909 (fully accepted 1910)

Jan. 2016

Restoration Support Document based on Patent No.: GB190929944(A)-1910-12-22

Switchboard Technical Gallery

Controller Technical Gallery

Jan. 2016

Smokstak Forum: Lister Bruston automatic electric lighting plant renovation question

Feb. 2016	External Interface Document
Feb. 2016
Mar. 2016
Mar. 2016	Facts & Best Guesses
Apr. 2016
Apr. 2016	Lister Bruston restoration progress
May 2016
May 2016	Lister Buston Controller animation
May 2016	Nokschakelaar
June 2016	Based on document 'Running Instructions' plus the gained insight during the restoration process, we produced a document Lister Bruston Handmatige Start procedure, English versionThis document will support the coming initial tests.
Nov. 2016	Our support from the UK, Graham Raymond from Wiltshire, who himself also is restoring a Lister Bruston generatorset sent us original content of how to setup the Lister Bruston generatorset. Document name: Erection & Running instructions for Lister Bruston. We are very grateful to Graham for the document, it will help us greatly to challenge our 'in house developed' approach.
Dec. 2016	Lister Bruston Testfase
Jan. 2017	Testing the Lister Bruston
Jan. 2017	Lister Bruston Testphase @Jacob de Haan
Feb. 2017
Feb. 2017	Lister Bruston Starting Up
Mar. 2017
Mar. 2017
April 2017
April 2017
December 2017	Starting up the Lister Bruston
December 2017	Starting up the Lister Bruston
December 2017	The Genarator delivers
December 2017	Shutting down the Lister Bruston
January 2018
February 2018
March 2018
March 2018
March 2018
March 2018
April 2018	If time allows, this month we should be able to make progress in the adjustment of the Lister Bruston generatorset. The following documents (partially in Dutch) support this attempt: Guidelines for Adjustments Erection & Running Instructions Lister Bruston Automatic Gererating Plant Wall Map Lister Bruston
October 2018
December 2018	Part of the Lister Bruston System has been the Battery Loader (BL) when it arrived in our museum half a century ago. The BL is subject of this section. We have no documentation of the BL and no information has been found on the internet either. The BL principle of operation is that it is current driven. The current is mainly defined by the the main voltage (110V) and the resistance of the lightbulbs. The current is 3,1 Amps (see BL Logical Schema). In case an external battery needs a reload, the BL can do the job. A battery tester (acidometer) is required for monitoring the load state during the loadprocess.
December 2018	Magnetic Governor demonstration