02-05-2016, 10:17 PM
In the early 80s I rented a house on Anglesey with a couple of friends where the owners had slot meters for the gas and electricity installed. The meters took 50p coins and we discovered that it the gas board came to empty the meter as part of a regular collection and there wasn't enough in the meter there was no charge but if we called them out and there wasn't enough in the meter we would be charged. We had to call them out on one occasion as we couldn't get any more coins in the meter. Apparently the collector spent about half an hour counting all the coins. We'd put £165 in the meter and we got £55 of that back.
Keith
Keith
