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Possibly Artic flex, the yellow and blue stuff used for festoon and stuff outdoors

Surprised theres no ASBESTOS insets in them

Not all the plugs are the same regardless of the tube T4 or T5, there all 230v leads though,, a new fitting will come with the relevant mains lead, simply cut it to length and it will connect into that white box, its unlikely you will find a lead to link from an older fitting to a new fitting...

Honeywell

It's likely the red and yellow pair do the switching whilst the blue is a neutral , if so you need to be carefull where you connect the blue

No idea , will have a look next time i see him, not seen any gizmos its still wired in to an old screw terminal junction box, reason bit of both i think bit of nostalgia and of the mindset of if its not broke keep it, his wife has a mobile though. He still has old test meters with PO...

mk k2200 may do the job There is a bloke on ebay that sells custom made adaptors for about 18 quid

We recently had extra boxes stuck on all the poles down my road ,i have one right outside my house , the bloke opposite still has an old dial phone running from a a copper cable, as an elderly ex post office engineer he refuses to change, i am connected to this same pole but with a fibre cable.

The Metrel i sold you last year

Do you recall the single 50va units that also weighed a ton and had little 3.15 A fuses built in the end that often blew, i see you had open front dichrolcs thats pretty old school. 12v seemed to really change shopfittiing till then round here was all Concord track and crown silver es lamps...

She is possibly safer without it, went to a few premises where similar had caused fires, I believe the invidual outputs were not protected just all commoned up to the one transformer output and back in the days 50w lamps were common,. and when the 12 volt lampholder wires burnt up and...

We used to use them for data outlets but noone really stocks them or fcu units nowadays, so its actually more convenient to get sockets and swop out the relevant logic bit to suit our needs

Easy, the plastic lug with the metal discs hold them in, release the top two and the socket falls out, theres three ways either 1, totaly remove the top two discs which is hard as the teeth bite in, 2, bend the metal lips up one side then bend down again after or 3, my favourite lean the...

How big were the stocks to thread 2 inch back in the day

Most rope edged accessories are oversized

Plasterbox knockouts are usually angled and recessed , i assumed that was so the cable would always exit slightly lower or higher forcing horixontal cabling to be behind the box and in zone, subject to room behind the box

Back in 2011 there was a few police driving round london with BO11*** numbers, some were quite amusing

Whats that bottom right corner, is it a cut off pullcord you might have pulled accidentally and turned it off

I remember that, think YT2 was made by EGA well before marshall tufflex MT2 or even sticky back

To be fair your choke/ ballast looks good, are you sure your using the correct starter, as a failed choke is unlikely to cause the lamp to flicker