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Hi, thanks for your input all. Yes, Crafty, the green cord has been cut where the wire goes into the bulb holder, ie, it is severed at the black casing, so only the flex and wire for the brown and blue go in. At the base of the lamp, where the switch/fuse is, the two earth ends (it's...

Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes. I guess that could be the switch. I'm rewiring it as when I bought it second-hand, the plug had been cut off. The thing that seemed odd to me was that the green ground wire had been cut so that only the brown and blue enter the bulb socket. As I'm a complete...

Hi, I bought an old lamp and am rewiring it. At the bulb-socket, there is only space for two wires. On the original wiring, someone had cut the ground wire. This then runs through to the base of the lamp. At the base, the wire cover is cut and slipped open. Here the two brown wires are cut...