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Originally Posted by broadgage
The very large cylindrical cell was probably the one commonly called a "flag cell"
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"Flag" was Ever Ready's type number for it. I'm guessing because an early use was to operate electromechanical indicators to inform a servant or hotel staff member which room they were being summoned to.
It's a mark of Ever Ready's market dominance that we're even talking about the PP range - practically every manufacturer had its own prefix (DT for Exide, VT for Vidor etc.) but kept to the same numbers. Even Flying Bomb - I've a, probably rare and highly desirable
, example of their PP7-alike, a KB7.
Paul