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How to wire a 1970's plug...

Lisa Miles
Just seen this and thought I'd share with you...


As part of the IET's 'Exploring the Archives' feature, my colleague Asha Gage‍ from the Archives Team gives us a quick look at an unusual item in the IET Archives. A tea towel from the 1970's made to help the public to understand the changes in wiring. ?

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    ebee:

    Hmm 40+ years. We were told it would never happen, it was only the flexes. Well I suppose that to about half the population that were told never it became never because those folks have now expired.


    I keep getting told we will never change back to our proper colours R Y B but now I live in hope




    I'm not sure that the enboldened statement is correct. It was my understanding a period of time would elapse agreed as part of our integration with Europe, between the change of colour of flexes to Brown, Blue and green/yellow and the next change of the UK's fixed wiring to the new colours.

    Personally we should dump the new phase colours and have them all coloured brown with identification markings at the ends. (for those who believe that the instigation of, you know what, will cause the rise of the new British Empire then perhaps we could colour them Pink.)


    Legh

     

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    ebee:

    Hmm 40+ years. We were told it would never happen, it was only the flexes. Well I suppose that to about half the population that were told never it became never because those folks have now expired.


    I keep getting told we will never change back to our proper colours R Y B but now I live in hope




    I'm not sure that the enboldened statement is correct. It was my understanding a period of time would elapse agreed as part of our integration with Europe, between the change of colour of flexes to Brown, Blue and green/yellow and the next change of the UK's fixed wiring to the new colours.

    Personally we should dump the new phase colours and have them all coloured brown with identification markings at the ends. (for those who believe that the instigation of, you know what, will cause the rise of the new British Empire then perhaps we could colour them Pink.)


    Legh

     

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