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[Dave Plowman (News)]

Amazing the way some ads linger in the mind. Wonder how many also remember which bank was advertising?

[Huge]

National Westminster?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Could this be considered inside trading?

[The Medway Handyman]

The collective noun for a group of bankers is "a wunch".

[Andy Hall]

yes, yes, and why did the Irish used to call their currency the Punt?

Only word in the language that rhymes with bank manager.

[Bob Martin]

I've never forgiven that big, nasty Westminster Bank for swallowing up my nice National Provincial.

[Mike Barnes]

National *and* Provincial, Shirley??

[Bob Martin]

Certainly not.

From "The History of Banking" :

"By the early 1920s public alarm at the pace of the merger movement had prompted the government to put into place a number of constraints on takeovers by the so-called 'Big Five' - Westminster, National Provincial, Barclays, Lloyds and Midland."