In article , Harry Bloomfield wrote:
Brian Gaff explained :
Kind of reminds me of the Iron my granny bought from Arding and Hobbs,
it had a bayonet plug like the end of a light bulb and the
instructions showed it plugged into the overhead light in a kitchen.
Do not remember the make now, but can you imagine the uproar if one
tried this today?

Not that unusual back in the day, few people had and wall outlets. You
could even buy BC double adaptors, so you could plug the iron in and
have the bulb lit. Many of the homes with socket outlets, probably only
had a single 5amp two pin in the whole house. I remember my dad running
an electric fire, radio, Christmas tree and later a TV via a multi way
adaptor from a 5amp two pin. If the fuse blew, rewire with an even
bigger wire :-)

when we got our first house in 1964, it had had a 1946 rewi 4 15A power
points (one in each bedrooom and one in the kitchen). There was also a 2
pin 5 A socket in the sitting room. That was it.

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