Humbrol! That's the stuff. Forgot the name!
From Wikipedia: "
Humbrol was founded in
Kingston upon Hull as the "Humber Oil Company" in 1919. After supplying oil for bicycles the company produced black paint for renovating them and then a range of twelve colours. During the 1950s and 1960s, Gerald Barton turned Humber Oil Company into "Humbrol" which developed a range of model paints and other modelmaking paraphernalia. In 1976, Humbrol became part of the Hobby Products Group of the international Borden, Inc. group. Five years later, Borden also acquired the French kit manufacturer
Heller.
The
Airfix model company joined the group in 1986, transferring its kit production to the
Heller factory in
Trun, Orne,
France. In 1994, the group was acquired by an Irish investment company, Allen & McGuire, and the business was restructured under the Humbrol name. Heller was sold off in 2005 but continued to manufacture kits for Humbrol.
14ml can
On 31 August 2006, following the collapse of Heller SA, Humbrol
went into administration. It was announced on 10 November 2006 that
Hornby Railways would acquire certain assets of Humbrol, comprising Airfix, Humbrol paints and model accessories and the Young Scientist brand for £2.6 million. Humbrol's main factory was located on Hedon Road,
Marfleet in Hull. In 1988, an
acetone spill at the factory caused a fire resulting in the death of an employee. It closed c.2006 and the site was completely redeveloped by 2014."
Let's hope - seeing its Hull location -the oil was not fish oil! I wonder how long the site remained derelict before redevelopment.
I've only been in England 7 or so years. In Scotland that's a slang term for a cat. I'm assuming you don't try and ride on your cat. Although I suppose that depends on what's in this "needle".
