Seems a bit odd!
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The only thing I can think of is that when the moulds for the covers were designed, they put the logo on the wrong side?
In this case, any of those boxes so constructed will be comparatively rare as they will surely have realised the mistake and rectified it ASAP.
In this case, any of those boxes so constructed will be comparatively rare as they will surely have realised the mistake and rectified it ASAP.
I'd better keep it then! 
Are you certain that it was not deliberate? A small one like that might be installed in a fairly conspicuous location, a bit like an 'accessory' - and standard accessories virtually never have any visible maker logos on the outside (although they often/usually do inside).
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Does seem odd, this is the front of a metalclad board so wouldn't need to be decorative. I thought I had it here, but remember now taking the photo as it is still installed in a boiler room. I had examined it more closely as I was washing all the old stickers and writing off it so I could put on some tidier labels. No other image of a Wylex board I could search for was missing the logo from the front.
Eidt: I'd also love to own one of the Wylex standard boards with the really big logo on the front!
Eidt: I'd also love to own one of the Wylex standard boards with the really big logo on the front!
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But when you look at the history of Wylex, they all have a Wylex mark on the outside!
Possibly intended to be rebranded as somebody else's product?
Would the 'someone else' (and, quite possibly, Wylex themselves) then want the product to be devoid of any Wylex logos, even inside?
One wouldn't find a mention of, say, "Kleenex" inside a box of supermarket own-brand tissues.
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That depends on their contract with the reseller.
It's not uncommon to find the real manufacturer's logo hidden under a reseller's label. I don't see a logo inside being very different.
If there is a manufacturer's address on an own-label product it sometimes gives a clue as to the better-known brand.
I essentially agree with all that - other than that I thought that reputable mainstream manufacturers usually/often did not want to reveal that other people's 'own brand' products were actually theirs - not the least because that could well result in a reduction in their own sales?
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Depends why they're doing it John. If, for example, the manufacturer is trying to penetrate a new market, he might well find a reseller who is successful in that market and arrange to supply him with products that can fairly easily be identified, with the intention of eventually selling under his own brand name when he has established a reputation. Also in some countries it is very difficult (in some countries illegal!) to sell a product that does not bear the brand name of a local manufacturer, but sometimes the OEM wants his name to be known.
Fair enough. Maybe I don't look carefully enough, but it's something I have hardly ever seen done, at least in products sold in the UK. What I'm used to seeing is "Manufactured in UK (or wherever) for Tesco/Wickes/Homebase/whoever", without any mention (or any other evidence) of who did the manufacturing.
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Interesting. To the best of my knowledge, they don't these days, but I'm not sure I've got any here to look at
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No, the deals with GET ended after they became part of Schneider Electric.
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