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Old 31st Oct 2016, 1:57 am   #57
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Default Re: Old torches - anyone here collect them?

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Originally Posted by Lloyd 1985 View Post
My Dad used to have one of those rubber torches! I remember it gave up with a duff switch, it ended up in the bin. That would have been in the early 90's.
The switches did seem to give trouble after a lot of use. The one on the really old Ever Ready rubber torch that was my fathers is very hard to switch on and could well have been repaired by me for him after complete failure many years ago. They seem to have made that type of torch over many years and if that black torch isn't late 50s, then it has to be early 60s. I've been thinking about the grey one that I had and it could have been an Exide version.
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