Are you old enough?
Seeing the "Lecky man" in a Cupboard caused me to remember a VERY ancient advert. I went to look for it and FAILED.
:¬((
I found this gem instead:-
"It seems a little curious, that as late as 1966, no individual bank has yet advertised on Television. ITV is more than ten years old, and TV ads are selling us everything, from the ubiquitous soap (both real, and in the form of the nowadays pompously titled “continuing drama”) toothpaste, holidays and pints of beer, to gallons of petrol for the “getaway people”.
Just why we have seen no bank advertising on our screens, is even more curious.
A general disdain for this type of advertising medium leads the Committee for London Clearing Banks to impose a “gentleman’s agreement” which forbids individual banks from the “vulgarity” of selling their own products on TV. All that can be allowed, are bland messages issued by the committee on the JOINT behalf of the banks – archaic indeed – and most often these messages are made as male-biased educational films to be shown in schools, and don’t even make it onto television. By the summer of 1967, some banks are clearly frustrated at such old-fashioned restrictions, and Barclays is first to come up with a very good idea:"
AND - there, lower down, it was:-
"the only bank advertising being screened in those days was the famous “Bank Manager in the Cupboard” screened by the Committee of London Clearing Banks. In 1972 Barclays believed that another bank might break the agreement..............."
Damgood job I took the shelves out.
I hadn't intended an "extra", but seeing the difference twixt the old one (Loose on the deck) and the replacement (Tiny white box at top) I felt compelled to add one.
Addendum:-
I'm guessing this is as a result of the PV panels; which, I think caused the old meter to run backwards?
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