On 04/04/17 12:03, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 09:22:04 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>
>> On 03/04/17 21:27, Folderol wrote:
>>> Those blanking plugs are a danger in themselves and should be outlawed.
>>> The 'earth' pin easily breaks off in the socket, then leaving live and
>>> neutral exposed.
>>
>> in 60 years of UK 13A sockets that's something I have never ever seen or
>> heard of.
>
> They may not be as necessary now, but in the past I'm 95% certain I've
> seen 13 amp wall sockets without shutters.
>
>
Yes. I though early sockets did not have them ..IIRC correctly the
shuttering happened in the 70s

Howver wiki seems to say that the original 1947 standard specified shutters.


My memory seems to indicate that the shutters fitted to my earliest
memory house in 1953 had shutters BUT that these often stuck open.


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