just to brighten up a miserable sunday morning, back when i first qualified.
No digital anything, only 2 types of meter, AVO7 and the one you fed shillings into under the stairs. Robin was a small garden bird, Fluke was something you got right by chance. A Megger was a hand cranked insulation tester and the only type of calculator was a slide rule, commonly known as a slip-stick. If you had an electric iron, it usually came with a bayonet plug and plugged into the nearest light fitting! Kitchens had one single socket outlet. The new 13A sockets were just starting to replace the 15A round pin ones. Ford was celebrating the launch of the Transit 2.0L V4 Petrol. Diesel engines were only found in buses and wagons.
CPC was a small Company in Preston, selling 2nd hand TV valves. Came individually wrapped in newspaper. Calculations on a job consisted only of working out the customer's bill, hand written, of course. I could now say guess the year. Over to you all.
No digital anything, only 2 types of meter, AVO7 and the one you fed shillings into under the stairs. Robin was a small garden bird, Fluke was something you got right by chance. A Megger was a hand cranked insulation tester and the only type of calculator was a slide rule, commonly known as a slip-stick. If you had an electric iron, it usually came with a bayonet plug and plugged into the nearest light fitting! Kitchens had one single socket outlet. The new 13A sockets were just starting to replace the 15A round pin ones. Ford was celebrating the launch of the Transit 2.0L V4 Petrol. Diesel engines were only found in buses and wagons.
CPC was a small Company in Preston, selling 2nd hand TV valves. Came individually wrapped in newspaper. Calculations on a job consisted only of working out the customer's bill, hand written, of course. I could now say guess the year. Over to you all.
