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Old 17th Mar 2012, 5:13 pm   #114
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Default Re: Another unusual plug and some other questions

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Originally Posted by John_BS View Post
Many years ago I bought a few NOS 13A plugs & matching sockets (from Proops, probably...). Made by MK, with silver-plated blades. I used a couple to add switched mains out to the back of an amplifier. The plug contains a standard BS mains fuse.
These, or something very similar were used on exhibition stands until at the least the 1980s and perhaps latter. The sockets were built into the top of sectional, re-useable wall panels, power being supplied by cable or flex concealed with the hollow panel.

Illuminated signs and the like could then be plugged in and hung from or fixed to the wall panels.
Sometimes, wall sections were equipped with 2 sockets and one trailing plug, thereby permitting of a number being daisy chained together, only the end panel needing a mains supply.

I recall a tedious day making jumper cables for these in various permutations,
It was the day of the great storm in 1987! which is the only reason I recall the date.
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