29-10-2016, 08:49 PM
Yes, I think otherwise practically identical. Yes, the mains taps look scary, but I think you'd have to poke a screwdriver in. Perhaps Plastic blanking plate held on by the screw?
But think what pre-BS1363 mains sockets where like, the 5A and 15A both bigger and no shutter originally!
Also up to 1970 it was still common to see people with a Y bayonet adaptor and plugging in some random thing along with light bulb.
Some asked me the other day why when he was growing up so many radios where on a high shelf in Rural Ireland (I didn't know for sure not having encountered Rural Ireland till about 1974 and only modernised cottage in N.I. in 1966 approx). I asked did he remember seeing radios plugged into light sockets. I said I'd read that many rural properties retro-fitted under Rural Electrification in 1920s & 1930s only had one or two plug sockets fitted in the whole place, usually the Continental type, not UK as Siemens was doing the work. That connector (larger than the smaller "Euro connector" which isn't legal, it has to have a screwed on UK adapter/cover in Retail) is still used and Legal, as are the 5A UK type as well as the regular UK plugs. Chinese sellers often assume Ireland uses the two sizes of European plug. South Africa still uses the old UK styles 2A, 5A, 15A, but Kenya, Hong Kong and Malta also adopted the rectangular fused 13A UK plug.
But think what pre-BS1363 mains sockets where like, the 5A and 15A both bigger and no shutter originally!
Also up to 1970 it was still common to see people with a Y bayonet adaptor and plugging in some random thing along with light bulb.
Some asked me the other day why when he was growing up so many radios where on a high shelf in Rural Ireland (I didn't know for sure not having encountered Rural Ireland till about 1974 and only modernised cottage in N.I. in 1966 approx). I asked did he remember seeing radios plugged into light sockets. I said I'd read that many rural properties retro-fitted under Rural Electrification in 1920s & 1930s only had one or two plug sockets fitted in the whole place, usually the Continental type, not UK as Siemens was doing the work. That connector (larger than the smaller "Euro connector" which isn't legal, it has to have a screwed on UK adapter/cover in Retail) is still used and Legal, as are the 5A UK type as well as the regular UK plugs. Chinese sellers often assume Ireland uses the two sizes of European plug. South Africa still uses the old UK styles 2A, 5A, 15A, but Kenya, Hong Kong and Malta also adopted the rectangular fused 13A UK plug.
