I was endeavouring to answer the question, which was: 'Who ignore you when you tell them that the socket has a shutter, opened by the plug, and that although little Freddy *could* insert two knitting needles in the socket he'd have to work jolly hard to do so?'
Reference?
This would suggest you are mistaken:
You are probably thinking of the Hypertac contacts which come in a huge range of sizes.
Source of stats for that?
In one house as I child I had a 15amp round pin socket in my bedroom. There was also a disused gas supply pipe for a gas lamp.
I had too (but not the gas). I remember there was a multi-socket plug with the various pins inside. You shook them out then twisted the relevant pins into place. It could deal with 15 amp round pin, 5 amp round pin and 13 amp flat pins.
Back in the late 60s my parents moved into a house that was plumbed for gas lights (and many of the old fittings were still in place) with an acetylene gas generator in an outhouse (as there was no mains gas). There were also a couple of old Lechlanché cells for powering the maid/servant call system.
Tim
"was the old MK one" ??. They are still available, at a price -
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