On Wed, 27 May 2015, tony duell wrote: > But almost all shavers sold over here now run off internal rechargeable > batteries. Why I do not know. It's not as if the cable is a major > problem (unlike having a battery that is flat when you need it and which > has a limited life anyway). Amazingly the chargers that come with these > shavers have the 2 round pins to fit a shaver socket. Quite why you need > to be able to charge it in a bathroom is beyond me, but...
That's because they fit virtually all ordinary mains sockets across continental Europe, that happen to be compatible to the common UK shaver socket for 2-pin unearthed (class II) appliances. So manufacturers simply do not bother making a special version of shaver charger plugs just for the UK. The same applies to toothbrushes. Maciej
