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G6Tanuki · 14th Mar 2021, 7:19 pm

I remember my parents had one of those retractably-sleeved MK plugs - which also included a switch on the top - on the "Berry Magicoal" electric-fire they fitted in their lounge sometime in the late-60s [when they had full oil central-heating installed and so no longer needed to use the coal-fire on a regular basis].

Part of me suspects the plug pre-dated the Magicoal: my parents were both very much of the 'make-do-and-mend' WWII generation where nothing-even-of-the-slightest-value was ever thrown-away. Even in the early-80s I remember my late father complaining that a new somethingorother came already fitted with a plug. "But we've already got a plug at home - why should we pay for you to supply one?"

14th Mar 2021, 7:19 pm	#9
G6Tanuki Dekatron Join Date: Apr 2012 Location: Wiltshire, UK. Posts: 14,007	Re: Odd Mains Plug. I remember my parents had one of those retractably-sleeved MK plugs - which also included a switch on the top - on the "Berry Magicoal" electric-fire they fitted in their lounge sometime in the late-60s [when they had full oil central-heating installed and so no longer needed to use the coal-fire on a regular basis]. Part of me suspects the plug pre-dated the Magicoal: my parents were both very much of the 'make-do-and-mend' WWII generation where nothing-even-of-the-slightest-value was ever thrown-away. Even in the early-80s I remember my late father complaining that a new somethingorother came already fitted with a plug. "But we've already got a plug at home - why should we pay for you to supply one?"