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[email protected] · January 8th 16, 10:52 AM posted to uk.transport.london

In article , (Clive Page)
wrote:

On 07/01/2016 23:45, Dr J R Stockton wrote:

A select portion of central Cambridge still used 110 volt
(approximately) lighting in about 1965. I can, if desired, explain
why.

That would be interesting to know.

I went to a shop in Cambridge in 1965 to buy a kettle. I was
surprised to be asked if I wanted it 110 or 230 volt. There must
have been a lot of domestic appliances scrapped at the time of
conversion.

Yet I heard none of this when I arrived in central Cambridge in 1968.

I tried to email John for more details (removing the ".invalid") but it
bounced.

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Colin Rosenstiel