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25th Jul 2017, 4:38 pm | #21 | |
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Re: A few memories.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet...er_recognition Can anyone date this Bush campaign seen in Gibraltar? https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...1&d=1500996979 |
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25th Jul 2017, 4:52 pm | #22 |
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Re: A few memories.
I would say around 1970 before the trade descriptions act came into force in the UK.
'Get a Bush and your set for life' was a logo used on the side of the Bush packing cases for the TV181 series.J. |
25th Jul 2017, 4:55 pm | #23 |
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Re: A few memories.
Pictures of the workshop where I was service manager for the Enfield Highway Cooperative Society c1970/71.
The green tinge is down to the florescent lighting. |
25th Jul 2017, 4:58 pm | #24 |
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25th Jul 2017, 5:25 pm | #25 |
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Re: A few memories.
Our late Gerry Wells kept that tradition going for many more years.
Lovely pictures, thanks for sharing them.
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25th Jul 2017, 9:05 pm | #26 |
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Re: A few memories.
And a can of RS carbon tet. Was he cleaning the earth springs in a BRC tuner?. Nice old pictures, I will have to look out some of mine.
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25th Jul 2017, 9:54 pm | #27 |
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Re: A few memories.
I notice the 'Appointed Dealer' sign in the window and wondered what that meant in practice?
Meeting certain standards? Meeting sales targets? Undergoing training in selling and repairing the manufacturer's products? Did manufacturers have a financial interest in appointed dealers? Apologies if this is hijacking the thread - mods please tell me off if appropriate! |
25th Jul 2017, 11:09 pm | #28 |
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Re: A few memories.
Back then, if you weren't an appointed dealer, you couldn't get genuine parts or service data. You had to rely on the omnipresent "Trader" sheets or one of the others. All part of the old restrictive practices. Trader created their own data, which is why the layout and component numbers often differed. There would be one in every month's (weekly?) issue, along with the trade gossip.
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26th Jul 2017, 7:33 pm | #29 |
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Going back to your pictures greg , I can see the likeness between you and your father.
Lovely pictures. Robin |
26th Jul 2017, 7:43 pm | #30 | |
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Re: A few memories.
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I doubt the Bush area-sales manager [who wore a 3-piece suit and drove an Austin Westminster] would have been happy with small stores going off-image and developing their own non-corporate ad-style! |
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26th Jul 2017, 8:13 pm | #31 | |
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26th Jul 2017, 9:14 pm | #32 | |
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thanks for that, i'd never really noticed, he passed away fairly young and the way he is there is how I remember him as a young active person full of life, the shop itself and it's Aladdins cave of mysterious contents to a young inquisitive child like me are very vivid memories even after over fifty years. greg. |
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28th Jul 2017, 1:17 pm | #33 |
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Re: A few memories.
Slightly OT, but have you noticed how the Bush typeface and logo has become very different on the newer Argos TVs?
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