Yes those are going back though. We had an old Alba portable with those
inside. Actually the speaker was rubbish on that thing and the dial was in
the handle.
On off vol on one side band change on the other and an edge wise tuning.
Seemed all modern at the time, sigh?

Hearing aids are interesting as well as some of them were valve, little flat
brown things and a mercury battery for the filaments and a tiny ht battery.
Brian

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On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 18:24:37 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
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Yes the Bijou was 3 v with two cells in a cardboard sleeve. Fatter than AA
but shorter than c
Then there were the pocket lamp batteries 4.5 v with brass strips and the
3v cycle lamp batteries with one on top and one on the side, and the
lantern
batteries with the springs on the top often used by schoolchildren with
wire
wool to start a fire. grin.


Do you remember those big 1.5 cells used for lighting the gas?

Or those large heavy 90v radio batteries with ?60 cells in series (or
was it 120 cells in series-parallel, 10 x 12 - they were almost
square) and all sealed up with bitumen and providing HT for the
valves, and oblong flat batteries for the filaments, several 1.5 volt
cells in parallel.

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