What exactly is that lampholder in Picture #2???
It looks like some home-made kluge made out of a pony-cleat socket and one of those brass lampholders with the paper insert that are used for table lamps!! I've seen (and even have some at home) pony cleat sockets and surface mount lampholders with pull-chain switches...but nothing quite like that.
Any way to get a closeup? I'm curious.
As far as fused neutrals, I've read that that practice harkens back to the days of DC, where fusing both sides of a circuit was a good thing.
Naturally things stayed like that during the switch to AC...
[This message has been edited by SvenNYC (edited 03-23-2003).]
