That was 1973, I was 18 (and not treated as one of the clique). AlthoughI knew how to wire a ringmain, sadly I was not in a position to question a professional electrician. However when I found the 15A socket powering 8KW I did raise it with the manager and I also knew the borough engineer so mentioned it to him too.
I've had this time and time again in schools. One even went to the trouble of removing the 5A BS546 Duraplug/Permaplug and replacing with Dail BS1363 (all with 13A plug of course) and reduced the length of the 1mm² extention leads to unusable (all BS546 circuits on B6 MCB). I was called in the change the fixed sockets. I expressed my disgust to the school at the appalling service from a county wide school approved electrical company, it was taken up with their 2 bodies and the county legal team, not only were they called back to reverse their action they were also made to replace their PVC replacement leads (they had shortened HO5/HO7 cables then reinstated length with PVC) and to bring their tower back to re-hang the extention leads and lights and pay for my 2 visits.
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