British Ever Ready Electrical Company

[2] Overseas manufacturing sites included South Africa, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Jamaica.

Hanson closed factories, cut jobs and sold the German (Daimon) and Italian (Superpila) subsidiaries to Duracell.

[4] Shortly before this the British Ever Ready Electrical Company changed its name to Berec Group.

Many models of radio set were manufactured in both Lissen and Ever Ready versions until 1941, when the Blitz ended production.

[7] The Dawley factory was originally set up primarily to make B103 and B136 batteries for the Saucepan radio.