The 80s brought us cassette tapes, hypercolour, WHAM, shoulder pads, Miami Vice, big hair and the best-selling Excel range of switches & sockets. It was the first range on the market with removable snap-on, snap-off coverplates which made painting easier and allowed people to mix and match coverplate colours according to decor. Cassette tapes are long gone, hair spray sales have plummeted, but Excel has prevailed. Classic design endures.
