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Originally Posted by Alan Stepney
(Why fuse both legs?)
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If, and only if, the appliance is wired between two phases of a three-phase supply.
Parts of the Continent used a three-phase supply of 127 volts (phase to earth), giving 220 volts phase-to-phase. Maybe 140 / 240 supplies were used in some rare industrial applications in the UK?
A fuse in the neutral would create a potential death trap if it failed (or should that be "succeeded" ?)