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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >   
   >In the UK every "standard" plug used to have its own fuse in it,   
   >instead of / as well as a fuse box elsewhere in the building. That has   
   >likely mostly changed due to international companies not wanting to   
   >bother with the added expense as well as newer buliding standards.   
      
   This is a feature of the ring mains arrangement, which was a sort of   
   crazy attempt to save on copper wire, and which is still standard in   
   the UK.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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