Oscar wrote:http://www.jubileeclips.co.uk/kiwi wrote:Talking of Jubilee clips!
When I went into our local motoring supplys and asked for a Jubilee clip they looked at me blankly finally asking me what it was for. Once explained the response came back as "oh a Hose Clip"
All these years living in a foreign land that speaks a form of english and now I find myself asking why do we old worlders call them Jubilee clips
It was a brand name that quite quickly became a generic name for the product class, eg hoove, or biro. That above factory, home of the worm drive clip, is just down the road from me.
They had several factories in Medway - not least the one built on the site of a temple and tower belonging to a religious sect called the Jezreels. Dunno what they believed in but they disappeared, so might have been uplifted by aliens or God.
Edit: here's the actual history for those interested http://www.medwaylines.com/jezreelstower.htm
The Jubilee Clips factory there shut down a while back but they still have another locally.