Alan, you keep cracking me up! [Linked Image]

Older appliance cords seem to be a healthy mix of brown-blue and black-blue. Mostly 70s stuff I think, but might be 80s as well.
Neatest thing is still the cord of my photo print drying press (Made in Italy): red, yellow and green... if I remember correctly green is the phase, red the neutral and yellow the ground...
I also recently found an appliance cord with black, purple and red... purple and red were connected to the pins of the Schuko plug and black was the ground...