harry wrote:

On Wednesday, 26 October 2016 19:15:15 UTC+1, Handsome Jack wrote:
Clive George posted
On 26/10/2016 18:32, Handsome Jack wrote:

People didn't generally used to buy plugs. They bought appliances with
plugs already fitted, with the correct fuse in them. But they were good
plugs, not the moulded rubbish we get today.

Are you quite young?

Sixty.

The rules saying appliances had to have a plug fitted came in 1994, and
before that appliances generally didn't have plugs fitted.

Most did. A few didn't.


They had no plugs because not all sockets were 13 amp back then.

ISTR a two or three decade period during which square pin plugs were
rountinely fitted and you had to change them if you had old sockets.

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Roger Hayter