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13th Apr 2021, 5:16 am | #1 |
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Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
Hi all.
Picked these up today. Anyone know the date range for these old batteries. I remember seeing them in the 80's I think. Brian |
13th Apr 2021, 7:31 am | #2 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
I would say mid to late 1970s.
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13th Apr 2021, 8:48 am | #3 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
I would say definitely before 1980.
I can remember playing with HP2's when I was in primary school, which I left in 1973. |
13th Apr 2021, 9:03 am | #4 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
Pretty sure these came out late 1960s as I remember seeing them in the corner shop when I was about ten.
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13th Apr 2021, 9:20 am | #5 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
Yes, my guess would go that way too, I was ten in '69 and am fairly confident I was using these in torches before then. The second post of an old thread refers to a 1966-7 catalogue including HP2, HP7, HP11 and HP16 -
https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ad.php?t=80951 - and I think this (rather than the style shown in the first photo of that thread) may have been the original livery. Paul |
13th Apr 2021, 12:42 pm | #6 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
I think they were already available in 1967, certainly by 1968. When I was a student I bought a set of 6 for my Philips EL3585 tape recorder, but they were too powerful for its centrifugal speed regulator to cope with, the motor running too fast with fresh batteries, so I stuck with the ordinary U2 cells.
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13th Apr 2021, 2:15 pm | #7 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
Wow.
Didn't think they'd be that old. I was born in 1970 so I didn't start buying batteries until I was about 10, I remember the style from then, but I wasn't sure. Well I'm 100% going to keep them, they are in such good clean condition. I'll use them as props I think. Thanks guys. Brian |
13th Apr 2021, 11:10 pm | #8 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
I seem to remember the design changed in the late 70's to add silver borders around the blue parts as shown in the picture at
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/17381148541515093/ |
13th Apr 2021, 11:53 pm | #9 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
The earliest date I can find for adverts of that logo style is 1964. In a 1961 advert they were still using the EverReady style with the large E and R.
I remember the silver linings coming in sometime in the 70's as I was an eager battery purchaser and I thought they were rather snazzy
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14th Apr 2021, 6:16 am | #11 | |
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17th Apr 2021, 9:12 pm | #12 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
I was certainly buying SP2`s Prior TO 1968, their was also a SP2, marketed as a leak proof U2, I recall.
I cannot recall when I last saw them for sale, but must be years ago. Ken G6HZG
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17th Apr 2021, 9:40 pm | #13 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
From memory, the white metal-cased U2 replacement (SP2) cells did not actually claim to be leakproof. The ones I bought in the late 1960's just said "sealed". They used to cost me 5/- for a set of 6 for my tape recorder, compared with 4/- for six U2 cells. I never ever had any of the old cardboard-cased blue U2 batteries leak and only used SP2s (which did sometimes leak) after ordinary U2s were discontinued. Both types only yielded about 2Ah at the 100mA rate.
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4th May 2021, 11:19 pm | #14 |
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Re: Anyone know the date range for these old batteries.
The EverReady "leakproof" series were numbered starting LPU.
Pictures of LPU11 attracted. Cheers Mike T
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5th May 2021, 8:44 am | #15 |
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The last time a saw one of the HP2's Brian pictures was about four years ago, took a bit of effort to remove as rather than leak in the conventional way little blisters had erupted all over the steel case. It bore a Woolworths 7p sticker suggesting that either they were sold loose or the label had been idly transferred from the packaging. I am the same age as Brian and remember these. I guess the date range would be of the order of ....'68 to '75.
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