LAIRD KELLY wrote in a message to TOM WALKER:

 -=>/Huh!/ Bad Re: Charger!  What'cha gon', what'cha gon',
 LK>  what'cha gonna do when TOM WALKER and LAIRD KELLY come for you?<=-


 TW>  Let me make MYSELF clearer. I am lookiong for the Source of the Term
 TW>  "B" battery. IF there is NO listing for it Why are you
using it. What
 TW>  is ytuor reaso nor source ror yusing the term "B"

 LK> Actually, the flashlight I mentioned is specified as using three
 LK> "B" cells in the model from 1917 and a couple of years later was
 LK> using an Eveready #703 battery containing the same three cells

 LK> and there is this description at
 LK> http://www.mentalfloss.com/archives/archive2002-11-25.htm>: 

 LK> "The dry cell B battery is long and thin, similar in shape to AAA
 LK> and AA batteries, but noticeably larger. They are as tall as a
 LK> standard D-cell battery. They're still available (but getting
 LK> increasingly difficult to find) in Europe, where they're used to
 LK> power a few obscure models of bicycle lamps."

Just to further confuse things,  I have a meter here that takes four
"AF" cells (nicads).  They look like fat AA cells or something. 
Slightly smaller in diameter than a C cell,  a bit longer than a AA (I'm
not going to open it up to measure exactly).

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