In article ,
Anthony R. Gold wrote:
Ergo, you can never introduce a new way of doing things because no
national code has specified that way therefore there is no way of
proving it's good. At least, that appears to be where you are with
that question. Doesn't make much sense to me.

The point is that other countries could have adopted this and did not

Can you name any developed country which has changed their plug and socket
design - apart from the UK?

and I doubt that is because the possibility was never considered. Of
course the entire ring system was born of post-war poverty and the
copper shortage.

That was one advantage, yes.

Are you old enough to remember the bodges that existed before final ring
circuits?

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