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Dating an Installation.

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Please help me to date this installation with earliest and latest dates.


Cream coloured Henley fuse box with cartridge fuses. Hinged lid to cover fuses.


P.V.C. insulated 7/.029 socket cables, tinned copper.


Lighting circuits with no earthing.


Cream coloured M.K. wiring accessories.


M.K. double sockets with four fixing screws.


Thanks,


Z.




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    Early 1960s?
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    I can give you some quite wide bounding dates.

    1) no lighting CPC puts you before 1970,

    2) but the use of PVC not rubber cable probably puts you after 1960, certainly after 1955.

    This is backed up by the 4 screw socket boxes which are a mid 1960s thing.  (the relevant british standard changed to the 2 screw variant in 1967  but both were in use for a bit)

    Much before that BS 1363 :1947 was in force but for the first decade or so, most sockets were singles and brown rather than cream.
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    1967.


    Do I get the cigar?
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    During my lifetime.
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    Sparkingchip:

    1967.


    Do I get the cigar?


    Only if you smoke, and the jury's verdict in unanimous Sparkingchip. But from what Mike said mid 60s seems about right. I must admit that I have never seen a Henley fuse box before. Cream in colour, plastic, cartridge fuses, hinged horizontal lid, central main switch. I will have to send it to J.W.


    Z.


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    Chris Pearson:

    During my lifetime.


    You're not old enough surely?


    Z.


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    Oh, and I forgot to say that I keep finding horrors under the floor boards in the form of single insulated wires connected with porcelain Screwits. But in their defence, the joints are good with no signs of heating up or bad connections. Those things are marvelous, even when joining old stranded wires to new solid copper wires. Do the Americans still use them? Mine are not marked M.F.


    Z.
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    Yes the Americans still use them, called "wire nuts"
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    Yep . I got a sample back brand new, about 5 years old. Come across plenty o` screwits in my lifetime
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    Chris Pearson:

    During my lifetime.


    You're not old enough surely?




    Raised hand Please Sir! I was right too. Can I be milk monitor next week please?


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