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I do remember buying 2.5mm T&E at about ÂŁ14.00 for 100M, and it was red and black and if I remember solid green, but like that reel of cable we are both now past our best before date.
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BICC were the biggest cable company at one time and were behind the booklet pricing of cables they also produced those handy Cables and Tables booklets and they if I remember correctly were the first to pack cable in boxes and called it Reelpac nearly all the "booklet" cables came in boxes at one timeWhen I started out most sparks used Copper Cable Company or ABB Cable , probably as this is what the big wholesalers stocked like WF and Eddies who were the big hitters in my area back in the day.
Cable never came in a cardboard box , Not until Prysmain came about and then all the big wholesalers moved to Prysmain in the nice boxes
I remember me old WF invoices priced cable stupid like thatBICC were the biggest cable company at one time and were behind the booklet pricing of cables they also produced those handy Cables and Tables booklets and they if I remember correctly were the first to pack cable in boxes and called it Reelpac nearly all the "booklet" cables came in boxes at one time
Back then when cable went up a new booklet was printed and when it went down the discount went up, who remembers the late 80's when the booklet price of 2.5 T&E was closing ÂŁ1200 / 100m and the discount was 98.5% on one large order we were given 99% discount by one wholesaler
I see that sort of thing on any Unitrunk stuff, disconuts of 80-90% off a stupidly inflated list price.another stupid thing back then was 5 and 6 foot tubes , they are trade something stupid like ÂŁ80 for one tube with a 97.5% discount
It used to be easy to get Doncaster from Toolstation but not so much now, I also quite like it.I find Doncaster the nicest to work with . But prysmian the easiest to source from screwfix. I dont need to buy bulk and if I pay a extra ÂŁ5 a roll ...the customer pays another ÂŁ7-10 . I never lose out .
Only used Yesss a couple of times and probably never again the way they charge they are worse than CEF IMO for overcharging the last time I went into one of their branches I left the stuff on the counter and went elsewhere a bit further from the job and got the stuff for close to a third of the price Yesss were chargingIt used to be easy to get Doncaster from Toolstation but not so much now, I also quite like it.
Yesss ought to be the obvious place to get it, but I have also been fobbed off with some unknown brand cable from them before and not the Doncaster stuff advertised (was some 4C SWA, not T&E, not bought much of that).
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