Rogue Traders

[Toonlad]

I remember it all too well, as a kid, some where coin operated tvs. you could listen to the radio through it too. Then when i got married the house we moved into still had the old cableing in, which at the time B sky B used as cable tv to the house still had to use the selector for the channels. The houses in my street have still got the cable on them under the soffets.

 

[monkeyelectric]

Way before my time all that but i do remember my nan renting a tv from rumbelows

 

[Geordie Spark]

remember 'em? i used to work for them. colour TV was just booming.

After I posted about them yesterday, I did a Google search and was / am amazed at what came up. I never knew they were such a big operation - I thought they were just a Geordie thing - but it seems they were all over the country and abroad.

So that's something else I've learned!!!

 

[telectrix]

yeah. i worked at the stoke branch. we had something like 12 service vans ( mark 1 escorts ) and covered north staffs. average was 18 service calls/day each. all the tellys were modular construction, so most were a case of swapping the faulty board and that went into workshop for repair, then out againas recon. half the time the recon boards were faulty anyway.