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V.O.E.L.C.B.

It dawned on me fully today while working in an old holiday chalet circa 1940s.


The man in the next chalet was trying to use his old Black and Decker 1970s car boot sourced electric drill outside on the grass. He was making a wooden clothes hanger with wood and pegs. A jolly good job too.


I had had a quick look inside his chalet as he needs some new sockets. The  fuse box is an old cream coloured Wylex 6 way unit with fuse wire carriers. There is an old Crabtree V.O.E.L.C.B. installed before the fuse box.


As he worked in the garden drilling wood, it dawned on me that he had zero shock protection as he would if he had a R.C.C.B. installed.


It's strange how a picture speaks a thousand words.


Z.


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  • Perhaps we have gone full circle.


    Back in the 1940’s the distribution network was considered unreliable due to war damage, then through the fifties and sixties everything got tidied up after the nationalisation of the individual electricity companies by the Government, but after seventy years and denationalisation we are back where we started due to a lack of maintenance and upgrades.
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  • Perhaps we have gone full circle.


    Back in the 1940’s the distribution network was considered unreliable due to war damage, then through the fifties and sixties everything got tidied up after the nationalisation of the individual electricity companies by the Government, but after seventy years and denationalisation we are back where we started due to a lack of maintenance and upgrades.
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