Re: Amazing D cell discovery!
Hi all,
When I served in the Royal Obeserver Corps (Nuclear reporting), We had torch batteries (D size), dating back to the 1960s. They worked fine in the torches and we never had to requisition new ones. Standing orders were to take them out of the torches at the end of an exercise and stand them upright in the cupboard. They were camoflage Green in colour with the usual broad arrow and ZA number on them. Some wag scraped some of the paint off and discovered they were made by Crompton Parkinson.
No idea what kind of chemical they used. They could have just been Zinc Chloride. Never broke one open to find out. They were still working when we were stood down and disbanded in the 1980s.
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