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Old 4th Jan 2019, 9:42 pm   #21
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Default Re: Is Ever Ready still a part of your life?

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Originally Posted by G6Tanuki View Post
The other was three smaller 1.5V cells side-by-side in a cardboard jacket with rounded sides, with a pair of springy brass contacts on one end. They were used in some sort of small flashlights. Was "1289" the number?
It was. Though they weren't much used here except in flat, hip flask like pocket torches, they were very popular usually in pairs for powering various radios from continental Europe; and I've a Russian multimeter which employs one. Still fairly readily available by post if not in shops.

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