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Nickthedentist · 7th Mar 2012, 9:55 pm

My grandparents had an early quartz clock in about 1978/9, a hideous thing with a hessian face and gold frame and hands.

It came with an Ever Ready HP11 (C-size) that claimed it was specifically designed for clocks. It looked very like the ones you picture, though I seem to remember it was part red, part blue although I could be mistaken about that.

There were also, of course, the SP range (= standard power, i.e. zinc carbon) which were blue.

However, Ever Ready (and other) batteries always seemed to leak in our household the 1970s, a nasty orange liquid which stained carpets etc. irrevocably! The only ones which seemed immune were Duracells, although they swelled slightly and opened their seams by 1mm or so when they were long dead.

7th Mar 2012, 9:55 pm	#5
Nickthedentist Dekatron Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Oxford, UK. Posts: 17,844	Re: Ever Ready Motor Batteries My grandparents had an early quartz clock in about 1978/9, a hideous thing with a hessian face and gold frame and hands. It came with an Ever Ready HP11 (C-size) that claimed it was specifically designed for clocks. It looked very like the ones you picture, though I seem to remember it was part red, part blue although I could be mistaken about that. There were also, of course, the SP range (= standard power, i.e. zinc carbon) which were blue. However, Ever Ready (and other) batteries always seemed to leak in our household the 1970s, a nasty orange liquid which stained carpets etc. irrevocably! The only ones which seemed immune were Duracells, although they swelled slightly and opened their seams by 1mm or so when they were long dead. Last edited by Nickthedentist; 7th Mar 2012 at 10:01 pm.