hemingray, i belive the meters in the pic are the westinghouse DS or D2S style,i have several in my meter collection,& seem to rember mne only having 4 dials or the odometer type with just 4 digits. wizzie, why didn't the power company put terminal guards on the blank sockets ? or is this customer owned meters & not the utility's?
Something I hadn't thought of, does anyone remember the thread up here about a year ago about the energy efficent experiment house? It is possible that these meters were all installed so that the homeowner/whatever could keep a close watch on what devices were using how much electricity. If you look closely, some of those little 2-space panels off the meters only have one breaker.
Why do you think they would want seperate meters for each room? Do you get charged based on how many lights you have on? That seems a little odd to me.