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Old 21st Apr 2007, 2:38 pm   #15
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Default Re: Old dry cells and batteries.

A few more survivors:

(1) The big one Siemens Full O'Power 1438, ready to take its place in a Roberts P4D, though I think this particular one came from a wartime Ever Ready model.

(2) Drydex grid bias, a tad mouldy, showing again the prominence given the Drydex name over Exide way back when. Not too hard to work out that Drydex signified "dry", and so Exide's market-leading accumulators just carried the Exide brand.

(3) Another GB battery, from "Marspen". Otherwise known as St. Michael's...

(4) A couple more *coughs* D cells. Though their appearance is very similar, the "Leakproof" one has a cardboard outer jacket, while the "Sealed" is in metal. Presumably once the "Leakproof" name had been dropped it made sense after a while to change the number from LP U2 to SP2, as in the SP11 above.

Paul
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