I'm pretty sure this was a homebrew import, since the red wire inside the Schuko plug was considerably shorter than the black and green, suggesting a BS 1363 plug.
Couldn't whoever did this have restripped the wire and just made the red shorter for the Schuko's ground terminal?
The black looks too long to have been just taken from a BS1363 plug and reconnected "as is." Mind you, I've seen some people wire BS1363 with the neutral looped halfway up the side toward the earth and then back down again, all jammed in tightly so the cover fits!
A.E.I. is Associated Electrical Industries. They've been around a long time:
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/freshwater/histaei.htm [This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 05-16-2006).]
