We're not short of significant annversaries this year, but this one may have escaped your notice - this Sunday, 29 October, the 80th anniversary of the UK's National Grid.
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(which the incumbent Conservative Government of the time opposed for political reasons).
Without this, local voltages and currents would have varies across the country, and standardised electricel equipment would have been much less prcaticable.
Dr Hillary J. Shaw
Director and Senior Research Consultant
Shaw Food Solutions
Newport
Shropshire
TF10 8QE
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