UK. 240V everything!
That's interesting. I assume you are familiar, but in the U.S. there are normally 2 phases of electric that comes into a house. If one is tapped, it's 120v. If two are used, it's 240v. I don't understand how a 240v motor works. I know that for 240v heating elements, a different phase of electricity is hooked to each end of an element and they butt heads in the middle... where I've seen this in practice is in baseboard heating.