Old M.K. Double 13 Amp Switched Socket.

All I would say they where well made, swapped one out the other day after long service. Wasn’t even born in 1963 so no idea of cost can only just remember decimalisation. 

The price in the catalogue was 21/5. Twenty one shillings and five pence, or 21s and 5d. Just over a pound, where twenty shillings was one pound pre-decimal currency.

Z.

It took a while to earn that amount back then Zoom   Say £23 today  ???

I happen to remember 23-11-63 too

I remember helping 1st fixing using them in the early 70s, make sure that KO box was square!!

Rhino60: 
 

I remember helping 1st fixing using them in the early 70s, make sure that KO box was square!!

That's a point. I had forgotten about that.

Z.

ebee: 
 

I happen to remember 23-11-63 too

W.H. as Doctor Who?

Z.

According to a Hansard report the average manual worker earnings where317 shillings a week, or between £15 and £16, so £ 850 a year.

Glassdoor reckons that is over £30,000 a year nowadays That is a multiplier of 30 to 40

Against that background at over a pound for a bare socket, before the back box and cable is added, you can see why houses of that era often only had one socket per room, and there was far more of a repair and re-use culture.  (as there would be now if sockets were £40…. )

This would be right on the cusp of the phase out of rubber wire and the introduction of the new PVC coated stuff, and much of that is still doing sterling service to this day.

Mike.

mapj1: 
 

According to a Hansard report the average manual worker earnings where317 shillings a week, or between £15 and £16, so £ 850 a year.

Glassdoor reckons that is over £30,000 a year nowadays That is a multiplier of 30 to 40

Against that background at over a pound for a bare socket, before the back box and cable is added, you can see why houses of that era often only had one socket per room, and there was far more of a repair and re-use culture.  (as there would be now if sockets were £40…. )

This would be right on the cusp of the phase out of rubber wire and the introduction of the new PVC coated stuff, and much of that is still doing sterling service to this day.

Mike.

But the hard up could save a couple of bob by buying a brown coloured double 13 Amp switched socket, as opposed to an ivory coloured one.

Z.

I remember paying about one pound per socket in about 1970. I think that the ones with 4 screws were by then obsolete for new installs but still available for replacements.

My late Grandmother broke a number of these sockets by pushing beds or other furniture against them with considerable force.

At the tender age of 10 years I replaced the broken sockets, though rather young to do this I remain satisfied that I did it correctly.