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To be fair you can drive a 1920s car on the road here, and maybe changing pre-synchromesh gears is a bit fiddlier, but the operation of the basic 4 cylinders gas clutch and brakes and all that  are much the same. 

I do not think there was a Mr Bayonet - the connector is based on the quick coupling on the end of the British Army Rifle used to attach a pointy thing so that when you had run out of bullets you still had a weapon for close combat. Bayonet connectors turn up in other disciplines too, like compressed air.


So who writes the lampholder standards ?

well

UK lampholder standard   Committee CPL/34/2
Screw lampholder standard  Committee CPL/34/2


You may think that is expensive for 80 pages of which most is the same as the last edition...

more on that committee


I suspect you exceeded your remit with the PAT fails - normally parts meeting another accepted standard are considered out of scope of test.


( I just need a standard for a pair of upturned forks on a piece of floorboard that can be livened up by push button to cook sausages etc so I can make my scouts 'danger of electricity' demo fully PAT compliant.. ?  Pickled Gherkins go well too, you get a sort of internal thunderstorm with a bright orange tint that I assume is at least in part from the sodium D lines around 589nm from the salt in the pickling solution.)


Regards Mike.

To be fair you can drive a 1920s car on the road here, and maybe changing pre-synchromesh gears is a bit fiddlier, but the operation of the basic 4 cylinders gas clutch and brakes and all that  are much the same. 

I do not think there was a Mr Bayonet - the connector is based on the quick coupling on the end of the British Army Rifle used to attach a pointy thing so that when you had run out of bullets you still had a weapon for close combat. Bayonet connectors turn up in other disciplines too, like compressed air.


So who writes the lampholder standards ?

well

UK lampholder standard   Committee CPL/34/2
Screw lampholder standard  Committee CPL/34/2


You may think that is expensive for 80 pages of which most is the same as the last edition...

more on that committee


I suspect you exceeded your remit with the PAT fails - normally parts meeting another accepted standard are considered out of scope of test.


( I just need a standard for a pair of upturned forks on a piece of floorboard that can be livened up by push button to cook sausages etc so I can make my scouts 'danger of electricity' demo fully PAT compliant.. ?  Pickled Gherkins go well too, you get a sort of internal thunderstorm with a bright orange tint that I assume is at least in part from the sodium D lines around 589nm from the salt in the pickling solution.)


Regards Mike.