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Old 4th Jan 2019, 8:17 pm   #19
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Default Re: Is Ever Ready still a part of your life?

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Originally Posted by Jolly 7 View Post
If my memory serves me correctly, Ever Ready used to make an unusual 3 volt battery in the seventies to fit their torches that would only take that cell. Does anyone recall this type of battery ?
There were two oddities I remember:

One was specifically for cycle-lamps: two large fat cells in a cardboard jacket, with one springy brass contact soldered to one of the centre-rods and the other soldered to the outer zinc about half way down the side. "800" comes to mind as the type.

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?

Don't think they were Ever Ready specific though.
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