Wednesday 31 December 2008

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Not getting out much at the moment, as you can see. My shirts have been out on the washing line for two days now, stiff with ice like cardboard cut-outs. I might as well stack them up in the shed to thaw out. However, My Neighbour Who Knows What I Like has lifted my spirits by waving this box at me through the kitchen window. It was the answer to her Christmas quiz question, "What's the earliest sell-by-date you've seen a package?". Well, I've never seen anything better than this: 11th January 1913. Anybody out there seen one earlier? Closer inspection of this large thick cardboard box revealed it to be the container for a single automobile tyre inner tube. Dunlop recommended that you immediately take the tube out of the box and keep it in one of their Waterproof Bags, to prevent friction of the rubber against the cardboard. And if the garage hadn't sold it by the prescribed date it was to be returned to the factory in Aston Cross. Dunlop first appeared in Birmingham in 1891, and at the time of this sell-by-date were just four years away from their relocation to the simply gargantuan Fort Dunlop in Erdington. Blimey, all this from an old cardboard box now used to keep Christmas decorations in. I wonder if that intrepid pioneer motorist J.J.Hissey had a handy supply stashed away on the back of his Daimler, ready for his chauffeur/groom/wife to struggle with on the grass verges of England? Almost certainly.

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Wow, by appt. to George V...only ever seen QE2 stuff in my life time, impressed that this box has survived.

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Putting aside all my usual smart-alec remarks about this probably still being regarded as saleable in certain Midlands corner shops, there is a fascinating bit in the top right hand corner. It suggests that stock like this was made available on a sale-or-return basis. That alone marks a step-change in culture....try getting ANYTHING on S-O-R these days!

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Amazing!
And there's something about the warning at top-left that it could be damaged by friction against the cardboard box which suggests this might need replacing rather often...

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Priceless. I've never had to deal with out-of-date inner tubes, but remember once years ago cursing the fact that the spare rubber drive belt thoughtfully supplied with my hifi turntable (manufactured by a company with the unmitigatedly English (!) name of Connoisseur) was perished beyond use, sending me on a wild goose chase.

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I had a similar problem with my Dansette Major, solved very dramatically by the entire record player being set fire to by my mother. Hoovering my bedroom (onerous task for anybody)she put my two bar electric fire next to it on my little side table, forgetting to extract the plug when she switched on the Hoover.

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