RE: Products we remember - 16

Not being of the brewery or any ancillary trade the only knowledge I have is my little stint as voluntary steward at The Brunswick Club.

I always thought that the items being discussed were in fact Beer Engines and that most supplied to Birmingham pubs were manufactured by Gaskell and Chambers of Coleshill St. John will remember them, the place with the drinking bird in the window that never stopped.

Phil

I have done a bit of research and find I am right, almost.
The name is Dalex. It was stamped into the lever below the handle of the beer pump.
VM

VM

As I said Dalex Beer engines were made by Gaskell & Chamberlain, Dalex Works, Coleshill St.

Phil

Phil, you never said Dalex or you could have saved me all that searching.
So there you are, I may have been drunk but I wasn't going mad.
VM

You should have gone to specsavers. perhaps you would have read it better. When I was a kid I would never walk past their display window. They had a nodding bird in the window drinking from a glass. I fascinated me because I could never work out how it worked. I still can't to be honest.

Phil

Remember Gaskell and Chambers very well, they were one of our clients.
On a similar vein, where was that bloke on a bike in the window, Dr Bicycle I believe.

John

Did you ever use the chippy on Coleshill Rd down by the post office. I remember my mother used to send me there for chips for the family tea. It was quite a gimp from our house and I used to have to walk there. But i was able to get the bus back so they didn't get too cold. I can't remember but they must have been good chips because there was a chippy just around the corner on Ashted Row.

Phil

You mean Coleshill St. Phil, I used the one just before you got to the Gaiety in the row of shops which included Rentalls paper shop.
Went there every Friday for the gaffer, didn't mind he always bought mine.

I still have my Goofy Drinking Bird.

I got it when on holiday in W-S-M, must have been 40+ years ago.
It is still in it's original box, although the box has holes in it because I used it to build either a metal detector or a radio receiver in.
VM

Goofy Drinking bird! Blimey I went out with a couple of them. How about you Phil.

I have a good laugh this morning guy's.

Now I'm off to wash the car.
VM

Stop talking about my wife like that

I remember when radio cassette players and alarms were still a luxury option in motor cars.
I made few bob installing both until they became a standard fitting.
VM

I remember when radio cassette players in cars played decent music, instead of this ridiculous Bass enhanced over volumised garbage. SB

My son had a mini with two wharfdale house speakers in the back, he wonders now why he is hard of hearing.