We have to consider living in airing cupboards, nesting next to immersion heaters, because they're preferable to those suburban holding pens for alienated young professionals.
They are no more dangerous than electrode heaters, which work on the same principle, but with plain water, or electrical immersion heaters, provided the correct precautions are used.
Other innovative luxury items included a trickle-charger to charge the battery from the domestic mains, an immersion heater in the engine, interior heating of the body and a built-in radio.
When the pump installed is incorrectly sized, it is unable to handle the entire load and thus rely on the immersion heater to supply the actual energy load.
So electricity boards went on the offensive and actively promoted electrical appliances - particularly high current ones such as cookers and immersion heaters.
