Electricity 1930

[Top-of-the-hill]

   I have been looking at a sale advertisement from 1930 for a farmhouse in a village, which includes electric light. As electricity had still not reached the village by 1935, would they have had some sort of generator?

[aghadowey]

Possibly water turbine?

[Top-of-the-hill]

  No water nearby, so not that.

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Personal generator probably _ i'm flicking through a novel written in the 1930s featuring an old farmhouse, as I know there's some discussion of improvements including electricity, to check how they were going to get a supply

[Mabel Bagshawe]

Found it - the phrase is "the electric plant can live in the stable"  Definitely suggestive of a generator set

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Thank you, that is interesting. I suppose it would have to run on petrol. I think there were two cars in the village by then!

[GrahamSimons]

The farm we moved to in the 1950s had no electricity in the house. Separate generator for the milking parlour. We installed generators; took a few years for the electricity board to connect us.

[Gadget]

We had a generator when we lived in N Scotland  as there were frequent power cuts in the winter.  We could run lighting and small things from it.

I can't remember if it ran off diesel or petrol.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  Thanks, it looks as if a petrol generator is the answer.