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Old 15th Jan 2009, 9:37 pm   #5
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Default Re: Old electrical fittings

The council house I lived in in Norwich was built in about 1948. It had round pin shuttered type sockets fitted when it was built. The were designed for use with the Wylex?? type plugs where the live pin was a screw in fuse. The earth pin had a pointed end to activate the shutter mechanism.

The problem was that the fuses were apt to break in half leaving a live piece of fuse wire protruding from the socket.
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