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8th April 2016, 07:08 PM
#21
Re: Prickly Heat
Wranglers, or Lees with the Wrangler bum freezer jacket, check shirt, and you were Jack the lad. When I was on the run to Yankee land used to bring a couple of pairs back and flog them to mates, in the late 50s they were unavailable in UK, kt
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8th April 2016, 07:18 PM
#22
Re: Prickly Heat
They used to cost the equivalent of 30 bob each in the early 50s
Then when they became fashionable in 70s about £30 each.
I still have a brand new, never been worn, Wrangler Jacket from San Francisco,1974.
They can bury me in it.
Brian
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8th April 2016, 08:05 PM
#23
Re: Prickly Heat
Talking of doing your dhobi sailed on a couple of ships where they had the little square washing machine with a wheel flat against one of the sides which had grooves in it and spun around.Very good for taking the neck off your Tshirts and getting the seems to carry away.One ship I was on the deck crowds machine was used for working gear and the catering crowds used for whites etc.
Regards.
Jim.B.
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8th April 2016, 08:22 PM
#24
Re: Prickly Heat
it was a Hoover model,
I also had one at home when first married, A terrible washer. Twisted all the clothes.
Brian
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9th April 2016, 03:05 AM
#25
Re: Prickly Heat
We used to all have a dhobi machine,we called it a bucket.had many uses very handy.
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9th April 2016, 04:55 AM
#26
Re: Prickly Heat
Hi Den.
I can't remember ever having suffered from prickly heat. But I can remember swimming down the tanks many times, but always showered off afterwards, had no problems.
Cheers Des
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9th April 2016, 05:50 AM
#27
Re: Prickly Heat
Originally Posted by
Captain Kong
it was a Hoover model,
I also had one at home when first married, A terrible washer. Twisted all the clothes.
Brian
Is that one of the reasons you got rid of her?
Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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