Here's the only remaining British Standard 2 pin plug, the modern ancestor of that plug depicted above from 1900.

[Linked Image from gordons-chemists.com]

The very annoying shaver plug, which looks almost identical to CEE 7/16 (Europlug, used all over the EU) but has shorter fatter pins and won't fit anything other than shaver sockets found in British and Irish bathrooms.

They usually won't even fit special shaver sockets installed in bathrooms elsewhere in Europe e.g. I couldn't plug my toothbrush into an Italian isolated shaver socket. I had to use the adaptor depicted above + another adaptor to get it into the wall socket!

Why oh, why the UK and Ireland can't just use Europlug (CEE 7/16) on shavers is beyond me! Europlug fits ALL UK/Irish shave sockets, without any adaptors or modification *and* fits shaver sockets all across Europe and indeed over most of the world too!

I can see no advantage to its chubbier UK/Irish counterpart.

Last edited by djk; 12/28/09 10:28 PM.