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   From: max_demian@bigfoot.com   
      
   "Geoffrey S. Mendelson"  wrote in message   
   news:slrnjg610n.3s1.gsm@cable.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.   
      
   That was so Curry's could charge you an extra £1 for the plug. Or drag the   
   equipment round to Woolworth's and get one for 50p.   
      
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