Thank you, RF Yorkshire. I will try this because if all fails I could put some of the LEDs elsewhere. Thank you to everyone who contributed and hopefully I'll be back in a few weeks with the results.
No I don't know why either. But the suppliers of these time switches do state that the minimum wattage required to make the timer work is 40 watts and they are referring to a single bulb. Currently we have inserted 20 x 25 watt light bulbs into this chandelier and the timer/switch works...
I've been reading the topic on time switches and LED lights and do understand that the lack of a neutral is overcome by using at least a 40 watt bulb. But supposing the time switch was controlling a chandelier with 20 3.8w LED bulbs and therefore using 76 watts. Does any know if this would...