View Single Post
Old 11th Nov 2016, 12:25 am   #101
Phil G4SPZ
Dekatron
 
Phil G4SPZ's Avatar
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Bewdley, Worcestershire, UK.
Posts: 4,735
Default Re: Old torches - anyone here collect them?

I certainly remember the No 8 battery being marketed in the UK by Ever Ready bearing the 'Bijou' name. I guess the individual cells were something like modern 'sub-C' cells in size.

On a broader note, does anyone share my recollection that torch batteries in the late 1950s and 1960s were expensive, worked OK for a short while when brand new, but thereafter deteriorated quickly to a 'brown-out' and were prone to leak?
__________________
Phil

Optimist [n]: One who is not in possession of the full facts
Phil G4SPZ is offline