Re: Is Ever Ready still a part of your life?
There was another Ever Ready battery I recall from the 150s/1960s.
A fat, metal-cased one about 2 inches diameter and 4 inches long. 1.5V - the top of it had a coarse thread on the outside and a central contact.
On to the coarse thread screwed a chromed housing with a push-to-make switch, and a protruding metal tube about six inches long. On the end of the tube was a fitment that contained a small, exposed coil of wire.
Press the button and after a second or so the wire glowed red - you then used it to light your gas-cooker.
While this worked just fine with old-fashioned town-gas, it seemed that natural gas was rather more reluctant to be ignited this way because these lighters faded from significance rapidly after we were all Natural-Gas-ized, to be replaced by much more-compact 'sparker' devices powered by a couple of "C" batteries.
These in turn became obsolete with the introduction of cookers with auto-ignition.
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