Paul,
I also remember the same sparkie mentioning
a wiring system used in the UK,around the
1960's, he called it the Octopus, it was
used in housing developments where every house was the same, but he said that the down-fall of this system was if the labels had been removed from the wires.
It featured a large junction box up in the
roof void, and everything was taken from there.
Have you ever seen one of these systems, in any of the houses you have worked in.
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