I was doing a bit of repair work on an old 1970s Popular Pack the other day at work which caught the eye of someone I work with who remembers when we used to sell them (been there some years). Reminded him of 'something I'd be interested in'. Apparently going back several years Newey & Eyre were doing some promotion with Thorn to boost sales of Popular Packs... by producing a 24 Carat gold PP158!


I need to find out more from him about this but it sounded somewhat like this gold fitting was either hidden in amongst regular Popular Packs sealed up in cardboard boxes, somewhat like the golden tickets from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or you gained promotional points with every fitting you bought and with enough points you would win the fitting!

I'll have to find out more about this on Monday!