Here's another assortment of ads for electrical appliances, taken from 1963 and 1964 magazines. Enjoy!

Creda Centrepiece heater

English Electric refrigerator

Parnall washing machine

Ekco heater & Ducal fan heater

Xpel-Air exhaust fan

Gold Star cooker (range exhaust) hood

Potterton heating timers

Sunhouse heaters




[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 04-15-2006).]

Oh, for our real old money again! How it tripped off the tongue! - "Fifteen pahnd 3 and six" "Two 'n ninepence 'apney". "I'll give you a fourp'ny one, in a minute!" "Only 19 guinees!" [The marketing boys loved guinees, they added a whiff of class, and being 21 shillings to the pound's 20 shillings, the product looked cheaper!].


"Is it really electric?", she trilled.
- [ In the grate is a the most ghastly horrid parody imaginable of a real fire. ]

And the 1964 hairdos! They were so stiff with lacquer, those kiss curls would have your eye out.

Alan

Thanks Paul,
I really love seeing old stuff like that.

See http://www.plan59.com then.

[This message has been edited by classicsat (edited 04-17-2006).]

Thanks,
cool site

Oooh.... Another great site to browse through!

To me, illustratios and ads like those have a beauty and charm that doesn't exist anymore.

I actually like the color of the old Kodachrome film from back then, and the result of it being commercially massprinter, on whatever colour press technology used then . I am also enamoured my Mid-Century Modern home architecture.

Dont remember old money too young for that

But I do remember the horrible wall paper that everybody had ..... and it would give you nightmares

See http://www.fiftiesandsixties.co.uk/ .
Lots of retro UK stuff, including a description of "old money", which is basically simple:

4 farthings/pence,
12 pence/shilling,
5 shillings/crown
20 shillings/pound
21 shillings/guniea

AFAIK, the UK was a bit slow to let go of what Americans cosidered gawdy styling.

Well wha'dya know? I already have that one in my bookmarks!

I still have a tin full of old coins stashed away somewhere. The farthing is missing from the pictured coins on that site, as it was withdrawn in 1961 as being of no value by that time, but it was about the same size as an American penny. Also, the multi-sided 3d. bit pictured was introduced in the 1930s to replace the former silver 3d., which was a very small coin, barely the size of a dime.

Other than that, those coins were the same shape and size for many, many years. In fact the sizes came about from the weight being proportional to the value for each type of alloy, thus the florin (2s.) was twice as heavy as the shilling, which was in turn twice the weight of a sixpence. Similarly, the halfpenny was twice the weight of the farthing and half that of the penny.

That meant that the banks only had to sort coins into silver and "coppers," and could then weigh them in mixed denominations.


But I bet you've actually used shillings and florins though. All the other coins were withdrawn after decimalization in 1971, but the new 5p. and 10p. coins were exactly the same size as the shillings and florins they replaced and of equivalent value, so they remained in circulation.

They were only withdrawn sometime in the 1990s when the new, smaller 5p and 10p. coins were about to be issued (these new coins being almost the same sizes as a U.S. dime and quarter, respectively).

I've often wondered how they must have confused visitors who had been told that British money was now 100 pence to the pound and yet still found coins marked "One shilling" and "Two shillings" in their change!

is the shown "Gold Star" the same GoldStar that turned to LG?

Actually the Korean "Goldstar" is/was Lucky Goldstar.

That's where the L.G. comes from.

I have an old cordless table-top radio (Silicon Super, oh boy!!) made for the South Korean market.

It was sold under the "Mamiye" brand, but inside, the componetns all bear the Lucky Goldstar's starburst logo.

How it got here, I haven't a clue. Maybe a Korean ex-pat who moved here about 4 decades ago, when the radio was new brought it over.

Only way I can guess that it have ended up here.

Sven, I know the electronics manufactor goldstar turned to LG, but is that exhaust hood from that brand, or from a different "gold star"?

A bit slow to let go of gaudy styling!?! Our old coins had been in circulation for far longer than the boring politicians who decided to get rid of them, [believe it or not]!
£ = libra, latin for pound.
s = shilling, from a 1ST milennium Viking word meaning to nick a silver wire to enable it to be broken into pieces of equal values.
d = penny, from the latin coin the denari.
Denarius had been in circulation in various forms for 2000 years in Britannia since the Romans.
The crown was born from "pieces-of-eight" stolen from the Spanish by Elizabeth I's English Pirates in the 16C. Rather than have the expense of re-minting the coins they defaced them by stamping a small Tudor crown right into Phillip I's ugly fizzog.
What did we get in return for our romantic coins, [ the far-thing, half-penny, thuppenybit, groat, tanner, shilling, florin, half crown, double-florin, crown, sovereign, guinee? The pathetic 'p' or 'new penny', specially designed for the thick and stupid who couldn't count up to twenty unless they took their socks and shoes off. [ in Norfolk, that'd read 24!] Mind you, by the time the coinage was dumbed down in 1971, they had already stolen all the real silver coins out of circulation and replaced them with cupro-nickel. Today even those are going, replaced bt plated crap. Have any Brits noticed the p is now magnetic dross?

Alan






[This message has been edited by Alan Belson (edited 05-19-2006).]

I'd highly doubt that the depicted Gold Star is of any relation to the now LG company.

In that day, some Korean firm would not be making appliances for the UK or other markets, let alone cheap electronics.

I'm not familiar with the history of the company in that ad, but I doubt it had any connection with the modern LG.

Back in the 1960s, the majority of larger electrical appliances sold here were solidly British made. Electronics goods such as radios and TVs which did come from the Far East were mostly Japanese.


For your bonus points, what am I describing here?

Penny = "Bong"
Sixpence = "Ding"
Shilling = "Ding ding"

(Hint for West of Ponders: Your "Bong" was worth more than your "Ding ding." )

Hmm,sounds like a postpayment CCB (AKA payphone)to me