Electrical connectors

An electrical connector comprising a tubular body structure (22, 23) having an axially extending bore (37) therein for receiving an incoming cable and for accommodating electrically-conductive contact-making means located adjacent a part of the cable within the tubular body structure and electrically coupled with contact means of the connector, and axially displaceable means (36) at least partly received by the tubular body structure and effective to cause the contact-making means to make good electrical contact with a conductor of the cable in response to a predetermined axial displacement of the displaceable means, in which the displaceable means has at least one positive hold position relative to the tubular body structure in which position the displaceable means acts solely to retain other connector components within the tubular body structure and in which the predetermined axial displacement of the displaceable means from the positive hold position to a further position establishes good electrical contact between the contact-making means and the conductor of the cable;

• said axially displaceable means having a groove or projection, and said connector including a tubular latching member that is slotted to provide a plurality of radially deflectable arms having a groove or projection thereon for making snap engagement with spaced projections or grooves on the axially displaceable means.