Re: Pye CT72 Fire!
I suppose the problem isn't so much the more lax standards in the past rather that TVs weren't supposed to last this long - and, of course, the vast majority didn't.
I would imagine the grommet and the tripler's casing may well have become less fire retardent than they were when your TV was made around 1971.
Some hybrid sets did gain BEAB approval - the ITT CVC9/1 and the Decca 33 series spring to mind, though the Pye Hybrid never did.
I do wonder if your fire would have gone out with damage limited to the line tower, though of course I'm glad you didn't have to find out. Some self-extinguishing plastics certainly used to burn with really acrid sooty smoke but then ceased combustion.
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