Cleaning my office here, gathering up the multitude of battery packs and sizes I've got lying around the place.
Got me thinking to Ever Ready, and it being the battery brand of my childhood (1970s/1980s) but hadn't seed them in years. Seems bought over by Energizer and last made in the late-1990s.
What other childhood brands have gone AWOL?
Not individual things like Texan bars but actual brands that were once everywhere.
I suppose British Leyland is a start!
Tandy / Realistic / Radio Shack, I had various electronic toys and gadgets from there.
Blockbuster video.
Pan Am.
TWA.
Compaq.
Netscape.
Woolworths.
R
Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
Presto.
Carricks.
Richards Penknives. They were really crap with their soft blade which wouldn't take an edge and the fake mother of pearl handle wrapping which peeled of in about 4 minutes
Club International
Razzle
Swank
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VG stores.
Matsui and Sashio Hi Fi.
Cheers..
Jase
Lyons Maid ice cream.
Sign was always outside our local sweet shop. milk ones were my favourite.
Black & Decker, pretty much (now part of the Stanley family).
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Eddy Laker’s SkyTrain
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Watneys Party Seven.
(According to the papers, come back is imminent)
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I've not lived in the UK for a long time, but I'm led to believe that Happy Eater and Little Chef no longer exist, is this true?
Ingersol
TVR
Decca Records
ICI
Express Dairys
House of Holland
Caters
Texas Instruments
ICL Computers
General Electric Company GEC
Marconi
Racal
to name a few
Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Are Tudor crisps still on the go?
Their Gammon were amazing....
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British Leyland. And soon if they're not careful, Jaguar, Range Rover and Land Rover.
"A man of little significance"
“British Leyland. And soon if they're not careful, Jaguar, Range Rover and Land Rover.”
Funnily was just thinking the same....
Be interesting to start a thread for what we reckon won’t be here in, say 5 years time.
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I’d climb a mountain for a canny bag-a Tudor!
No they don’t exist now.
Are Tudor crisps still on the go?
Their Gammon were amazing....
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Unigate
Allders
Adams
B
Ariston.
Woolworths.
The Rabbit mobile phone network.
Matsui TV's
And on TV: Visionaries.
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Maxell
TDK
Razzle
Both still making record-able DVDs amongst other stuff.
Chinon
Austin Reed
Moskvich
Jonathan Silver
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"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Max power. Some things are better left in the past.
Radio Rentals
Pete
Good to know...
Cheers..
Jase
When I was a kid we used to pop the plastic bit out of the top of used HP2 batteries and push a plastic biro cap with the clip removed through the central hole to make a rudimentary spinning top that was launched by flicking between middle finger and thumb. Biro caps were properly pointy in those days and you could achieve quite a long duration spin. The leftover tube of the pen could be used as a mini dart shooter, the darts being made from sewing pins and a bit of a spud.
Binatone
Grandstand
Sinclair
Commadore
Milton Bradley
Ideal
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I’ve got one of the above in the loft
Woolworths.
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I honed my programming skills on a C64 having first learnt assembly with a TRS-80. I still have both.
Unigate as above- my dad worked in their head office back in the 80s!
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Bar Six
Cossack Motorcycles
Bar Six
Cossack Motorcycles
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Yes, they have been rebranded as a few things including 'Dnieper' and for some strange reason 'Neville'
In the mid 70's I lived round the corner from a Cossack dealer and would often have a look at them on the pavement in front of his shop. The 'Cossack' name on the tank seemed to be made of self adhesive silver paper like something out of a Christmas cracker. I also recall a 350cc two stroke twin called the Cossack 'Jupiter' - pale blue and white with a matching sidecar. All rather bargain basement and looked down by many bikers at the time. My BSA Starfire (£25) had much more kudos, even if I did have to push the hateful thing further than I actually rode it.
Ratners
I've seen them on the roads but never seen a dealership. As a young I was amazed to discover they had the ability to reverse and IIRC some models were 2WD (rear and side car wheels) and were built like a tank. I reckon they disappeared roughly at the same time Lada stopped selling their rust buckets.
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You can still buy a modern incarnation of Bigtrak https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zeon-Limite...c=1&th=1&psc=1
There's a Wimpy by Mordor Morden Tube and another at the Southsea pleasure beach.
Have we done Swisskit bars? I'd risk it for a Swisskit.
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Rumbelows
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Ha.... My very first job was at Rumbelows... Trainee Radio & TV service Yoof
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JVC 7825E...Rumbelows bought and rented thousands of them....bet you never had to repair or adjust one... lol
Worked for them & Thorn 20 years.
Psion Organizer; so high-tech.
Cossack Hairspray.
Blue Stratos
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Physio sport
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Fiendish feet yogurt
Amstrad!
Bata's, Barratts, & Stylo.
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which were the stylo matchmakers that fastened on the side?Bata's, Barratts, & Stylo.
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