Does anyone I Remember those weird connectors on vacuum cleaners with two
pins and if you were lucky and earthed strap on the sides that connected to
springs on the inside of the socket which had the pins. These were always
working loose and getting hot and sparking and it was quite common to see
them held together with tape and the sockets mended with araldite. It seems
we did not really take electrical safety very seriously back then.
It was not that long ago that electric lawn mowers had isolator cut outs
on the house end of their cables. I still have on in a drawer.
Both my sheds nearly always had some 2 pin plugs, very handy with those
plugs that you just poked the wires under loops and did the lid up to clamp
them.
Brian

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On Monday, 29 July 2019 20:30:48 UTC+1, wrote:
http://www.eafa.org.uk/catalogue/3061

just been shown on Talking Pictures.

Some nice old fuseboards, modern 3 pin plugs, and a gentleman gets
electrocuted in the bath while his wife does the ironing.


I can remember installing such stuff.