Tim Watts wrote:
On 27/03/15 20:26, wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 19:27:32 +0000, tony sayer
wrote:


But of course you'd tested all the terminals for dead before
working anyway

S.I.D.E.!!!

Remember it well...

3:59 In..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2RPu4Hs_qo

Interesting socket glimpsed briefly at 4.32

Yes - never seen one of those before

(13A format, normal earth, neutral at 45 degrees and what looks like
a
15A gauge round pin for the live)

It was actually 5-A gauge.
The plugs had fuses in both poles.
Made by Wandsworth.
They were used for the 110-V C.T.E. supply, and were being replaced by
a similar type of the same make, like a standard BS1363 but with a
right-angled R.H pin that was reduced to BS1363 size, at the end when
I was a student assistant at Culham Lab. in 1983.