Coin Operated electricity meters

[Colly0410]

MiPS... That pre pay electric meter is exactly the one my parents had in the 1960's/70's, drove me mad when it'd cut off at the best part of the program. Once the shilling or 50 pence coin was in the meter it belonged to the electricity board, if someone picked or broke the lock the cops were called as classed as theft. Back then it was the number two crime that came up in courts, the number one crime was watching TV illegally with expired or no TV licence..