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Plugs - interesting...
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No, really it isn't.
Some kind of guide to all the old UK sockets and plugs might be, also where had what voltage/frequency/plugs/ac or dc, from before standardisation.
Philip
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Dunno! Curiosity I suppose. Same reason there are museums full of old light bulbs.
Philip
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That reminds me. There is (was?) a toy museum in Cockermouth. One exhibit is a child's train set, using a low voltage motor in the locomotive, fed from the tracks, using a controller which plugged in in place of a lightbulb. The bulb then plugged into the controller as a dropper resistor - so if the train came off the track and left the controller output open circuit, you were left with mains voltage (IIRC around 100V - pre-standardisation) on the tracks !!!!
SteveW
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Sadly, Cockermouth Toy and Model Museum has closed :-(
The high voltage sets are very well known, with examples made by Hornby in the UK and JeP in France, among many. Now very collectible.
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That's such a pity. I was last over there some years ago, but it was great to spot so many toys (late 60s onwards) from my youth.
SteveW
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If you're in the area, the Hornby Visitor Centre in Margate is worth a look. Toys that go back a long way, Scalextric from every decade it was manufactured, Dinky Toys, Corgi, Airfix models....to name but a few.
And you'll probably find it hard to leave without buying a train set.
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11 years ago
adopting the US standard."
For most countries, adopting or not adopting the US standard never came into it.
JGH
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Only a loony would want US plugs. I suffered with them for 12 years. And my house had at least 3 types of 110V sockets, and the washer/dryer needed 240V so it had its own plug type too.
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I spent a couple of years in S africa working for a German company.
The boss had equipped the workkshop with all german sockets. I bought a
15A plug and attached it to my 13A distrubution blocks and ran all MY UK kit off that. Ho hum!- Vote on answer
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I have that listed in a book (not plugs). The listing is enormous.
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Many S.African sockets take lots of the common world plugs. If I'd had time to find one for sale, I would have brought it back. Their official socket seems to be the old UK 15A round pin, when you come across a socket which it not for visitors' use.
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En el artículo , snipped-for-privacy@arcade.demon.co.uk escribió:
Thankfully.
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11 years ago
Is it now a boating lake?
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Yes, I think I have three types here... plus two different types for 240V.
I don't know why the 240V ones have to be so %#^&ing huge.