Oldham batteries back on the shelves

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Sat 8 Aug 2009 14:29
Oldham batteries back on the shelves - bell boy
i told em oldham
plus tungstone and crompton are coming back too
i love nostalgia
if only flying bomb batteries were also on sale my life would be complete

Edited by Pugugly on 08/08/2009 at 19:34

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Sat 8 Aug 2009 16:28
oldham batteries back on the shelves - jc2
Yeah-someone owns the names but who actually makes them?
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Sat 8 Aug 2009 16:45
oldham batteries back on the shelves - perro
>>> Yeah-someone owns the names but who actually makes them? <<<

Wou wong weu in the Yangste delta.
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Sat 8 Aug 2009 19:09
oldham batteries back on the shelves - bell boy
it was in a trade book so i would have to look in there
i think it was a uk company though
i got a battery off the local parts place today and asked the driver not to start anything
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Sat 8 Aug 2009 20:19
oldham batteries back on the shelves - Falkirk Bairn
.>>oldham batteries back on the shelves

More likely to be the Manchurian version rather than the Mancunian Oldham!!!!!
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Sat 8 Aug 2009 21:17
oldham batteries back on the shelves - gordonbennet
Retro Mancunian....hmm any chance of McVities relaunching the Royal Scot?
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Sat 8 Aug 2009 21:57
Oldham batteries back on the shelves - OldSock
"Flying Bomb" batteries - very evocative, even if they were useless :-)

And what about Duckhams Q? Green, and with a quite distinctive bouquet on the nose...
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Sat 8 Aug 2009 22:18
Oldham batteries back on the shelves - bathtub tom
Now I remember them, I probably tried to forget them!

www.flickr.com/photos/neatocoolville/2075585493/pa.../
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Sun 9 Aug 2009 09:04
Oldham batteries back on the shelves - L'escargot
if only flying bomb batteries were also on sale my life would be complete


You wouldn't say that if a flying bomb had landed near you in the second world war!
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Sun 9 Aug 2009 09:25
Oldham batteries back on the shelves - perro
>>> You wouldn't say that if a flying bomb had landed near you in the second world war! <<<


Were you in London during the 40's comrade L'escargot?
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