[Charliewool]

Originally Posted by arm79

That's what Cookie was doing, as did his father before him. They were hand assembling batteries in this little shed at the rear of a house for decades.

You'd walk into the shed and there'd be a bubbling pot of whatever acid in one corner and a production line around the walls. Piles of new and empty cases and parts in the next room. Still on dirt floor.

Dad met him when they were doing jewellery apprenticeship together in late 60s and early 70's. We'd been using his batteries a family from then until he shut up just before 2010.

He sold his business to a mid sized battery chain who also employed him for his knowledge. Somehow he sold his shed/workshop. I pity the new owners of that plot of land.

Unfortunately alot of knowledge went with him, wherever he is now too...

And strangely, he could never pronounce battery properly...

“Cookie” was MOON batteries off North St Ascot Vale, near Polo Club hotel (where you’d find Cookie Jnr most afternoons lol)
Yep, all made on premises… Even the cases (and Heavy as feck!)
Young Cookie sold out to IBD (independent battery distributors) in Westside Drive Laverton Nth… He was still there before I relocated to Costa Rica 6 odd yrs ago but was talking retirement back then so probably gone now, along with his incredible battery knowledge!
Moon batteries were the ants-pants of batteries… Unfortunately got to the stage where they were cost prohibitive against multi-nationals…