On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 00:25:44 +0100, Andy Hall
wrote:

On 2007-10-01 00:15:13 +0100, Frank Erskine
said:

On 30 Sep 2007 22:42:15 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

I've got this theory that if toy cars (matchbox cars in my day)

Didn't Matchbox cars cost 1/-? ISTR that some bigger ones (approaching
Dinky in size) were 1/6 or even 2/-.

I spent too much of my pocket money on Matchbox toys from the local
post office (and MES batten lampholders and tiny ELV light switches
from Woolworth's).

Yes, but think what you learnt from them

Exactly. An awful lot (well, the leccy things). I used to wire up all
those batten lampholders in series with copper wire ( I was afraid
that iron wire would hold a high voltage charge (!), and would poke
the wires into a 5A mains outlet.
One or two shocks later I learnt the advantages of wiring ELV switches
and other bits in a certain order to minimise shocks and tingles with
which it wasn't a good idea to tell my parents.

Hey - I was only 7 or 8 years old...

Now I'm a little older. And still extant.

--
Frank Erskine