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   From: gsm@mendelson.com   
      
   Jerry wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Hmm, surely the 1970s were a tad late for different voltages   
   > (certainly for London), the national grid had been started long   
   > before WW2 and was complete not long after, are you are not   
   > thinking of the different designs of electrical circuits and   
   > sockets in use or perhaps a different time period?   
      
   That was it. It was all 240v 50Hz, but the sockets were still the old ones.   
      
   By the time I first got there in 1983, I only saw the ones that are now   
   in use, but anything electrical was sold without a plug.   
      
   Geoff.   
      
      
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