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Andrew Gabriel wrote:
My parent's which is 1956 IIRC, does have earthed lighting circuit,
so it certainly was available then, although not mandatory.

I don't remember PVC in '56 - it was still rubber that the wholesalers
in Aberdeen supplied then and for some time afterwards. Perhaps old
stock. ;-)

I'll check the date with them -- I might be a little out, but it was
before 1960.

I don't remember PVC house wiring at all while I was at school. I came to
London to work in late '62, and it was some time before I had anything to
do with house wiring again - say late '60s, by which time it was all PVC.
And about the time they changed to metric.

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