siemens

This is not Lt. Hermann Gilly. It is Fritz Beckhardt, a German/Jewish fighterr pilot. Interesting that he chose this marking. It did not mean what it later came to mean. It was, at the time, considered a good luck symbol. Hermann Gilly flew with Jasta 40 and flew a black Fokker D.VII.

and the aircraft is a Siemens Schukert SS D.III

The Nazis tried to erase Beckhardt from history because he was Jewish and a pain in the butt to them. I "saved" him in this article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Beckhardt

High Lizzie? Cork version of a High Nellie?

They were used in Ardnacrusha and Poulaphouca. They were put in in the early '20s and at the time provided something like 70% of the country's electric power. These don't seem to be dynamos, though - It says on them that they're loom motors, and indeed, electric looms is what they look like.

Can you imagine the noise......

Carol Maddock We had a maiden aunt Nellie!

The Siemens Brothers Dynamo Works Ltd. was only formed in 1906, according to Grace's Guide.

Great pic and very cool series !

The L.F.G.-Roland D.XVI here in its first version powered by a 160 hp Siemens Sh.II rotary engine driving a four-bladed propeller. A second sample of the L.F.G.-Roland D.XVI was fitted with a Goebel III rotary of 170 hp driving a two-bladed propeller. Sometimes the different machines are identified as D.XVI/1 (with the Siemens engine) and D.XVI/2 (with the Goebel engine). But these identities may have been dreamt up years after the event. A picture of the D.XVI with the Goebel engine can be found here