Inside-of-door **circuit directory** of a later **Federal Pacific Electric Company** breaker panel on the **second floor** of the Hoffmann-Hayman factory, photographed on 5 January 2025 — a grey speckle-finish panel door printed in black with a 'CIRCUIT DIRECTORY' header above two columns of numbered circuit-label lines (1, 3, 5, 7, … on the left for odd circuits and 2, 4, 6, … on the right for even circuits, running 1 through 24), small wiring schematics at the top showing the SUBFEED block (left) and LINE block (right) with circuits 19/21/23 labeled, and below them a printed paragraph reading 'Suitable for use as service equipment when wired in accordance with the above wiring diagram (attach adhesive 'MAIN' marker). The number of branch circuits per leg must not exceed one-tenth of the current rating of the 'main' breaker.', a horizontal rule, and 'WIRE ALL BREAKERS PER TYPICAL WIRING DIAGRAM'; the manufacturer's masthead at the bottom reads '**FEDERAL PACIFIC ELECTRIC COMPANY · NEWARK, NEW JERSEY**' (the mid-twentieth-century FPE breaker panel — a major American panel/breaker maker from roughly the late 1950s through the 1980s) above a small catalog/serial line beginning 'Y31…' and a printed safety paragraph headed 'WARNING:' about not replacing breakers with higher-rated ones; **handwritten in pencil** across the directory in capital block letters by plant staff are three labels on three separate odd-circuit lines on the left column — '**TEA MACHINE**' on the line for circuit 3, '**AIR COND.**' on the line for circuit 7, and '**SIFTER**' on the line for circuit 17 — the rest of the circuit slots (5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, and the entire even column 2–24) left unlabeled; the **TEA MACHINE** circuit ties this second-floor panel directly to the firm's documented [H and H Tea]({{ site.baseurl }}/brands/h_and_h_tea/) line (a non-coffee grocery-staple line that ran across the firm's history, including paper-label tea tins, Orange Pekoe cartons, and the 1950s Master Chef tea-bag program), and the **SIFTER** circuit (with no floor designation here) is a **distinct second-floor sifter** from the 'SIFTER - 1ST FLOOR' circuit on the older [first-floor Trumbull Electric panel](/assets/images/gallery/breaker-panel-labels.jpg) — i.e. the plant ran sifting operations on both floors with separate electrical circuits in separate panels
Inside-of-door **circuit directory** of a later **Federal Pacific Electric Company** breaker panel on the **second floor** of the Hoffmann-Hayman factory, photographed on 5 January 2025 — a grey speckle-finish panel door printed in black with a 'CIRCUIT DIRECTORY' header above two columns of numbered circuit-label lines (1, 3, 5, 7, … on the left for odd circuits and 2, 4, 6, … on the right for even circuits, running 1 through 24), small wiring schematics at the top showing the SUBFEED block (left) and LINE block (right) with circuits 19/21/23 labeled, and below them a printed paragraph reading 'Suitable for use as service equipment when wired in accordance with the above wiring diagram (attach adhesive 'MAIN' marker). The number of branch circuits per leg must not exceed one-tenth of the current rating of the 'main' breaker.', a horizontal rule, and 'WIRE ALL BREAKERS PER TYPICAL WIRING DIAGRAM'; the manufacturer's masthead at the bottom reads '**FEDERAL PACIFIC ELECTRIC COMPANY · NEWARK, NEW JERSEY**' (the mid-twentieth-century FPE breaker panel — a major American panel/breaker maker from roughly the late 1950s through the 1980s) above a small catalog/serial line beginning 'Y31…' and a printed safety paragraph headed 'WARNING:' about not replacing breakers with higher-rated ones; **handwritten in pencil** across the directory in capital block letters by plant staff are three labels on three separate odd-circuit lines on the left column — '**TEA MACHINE**' on the line for circuit 3, '**AIR COND.**' on the line for circuit 7, and '**SIFTER**' on the line for circuit 17 — the rest of the circuit slots (5, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, and the entire even column 2–24) left unlabeled; the **TEA MACHINE** circuit ties this second-floor panel directly to the firm's documented [H and H Tea]({{ site.baseurl }}/brands/h_and_h_tea/) line (a non-coffee grocery-staple line that ran across the firm's history, including paper-label tea tins, Orange Pekoe cartons, and the 1950s Master Chef tea-bag program), and the **SIFTER** circuit (with no floor designation here) is a **distinct second-floor sifter** from the 'SIFTER - 1ST FLOOR' circuit on the older [first-floor Trumbull Electric panel](/assets/images/gallery/breaker-panel-labels.jpg) — i.e. the plant ran sifting operations on both floors with separate electrical circuits in separate panels
Catalog ID
HH-FACT-0000-0023
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Factory