Dorman .26 Smith .28D.26S.29 AC power plugs and sockets: British and related types
3 d&s sockets mounted on panel
made dorman & smith ltd. (using patents applied in 1943) plugs , sockets rated @ 13 a , 1 of competing types use on ring final circuits. never popular in private houses deployed in prefabricated houses , council housing. bbc used them. local authorities continued use them in new installations until late 1950s. many d&s sockets still in use until 1980s, although difficulty in obtaining plugs them after around 1970 forced users replace them bs 1363 sockets. d&s plug suffered serious design fault: line pin fuse screwed plug body , tended come unscrewed on own in use. fuse worked loose end protruding socket, electrically live , posing shock hazard, when plug removed.
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