7 Up up with the formula for a lemon-lime soft drink in 1929. The product, originally named "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda", was launched two weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929. It contained lithium citrate, a mood-stabilizing drug, until 1948. It was one of a number of patent medicine products popular in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Its name was later shortened to "7 Up Lithiated Lemon Soda" before being further shortened to just "7 Up" by 1936. A myth exists that the 7 Up name comes from the drink having a pH over 7. That would make it neutral or
Sprite (motorcycle) and Norton telescopic front forks and British Hub Co. (Motoloy) brakes front and rear. The pivoting rear-forks on all models were fitted with "Silentbloc" bushes. A later option was "Metal Profiles" (REH) front forks. They were later built for 123, 244, and 405 cc two-stroke engines. The Sprite marque should not be confused with the older British "Spryt", a small-capacity two-stroke engine produced by Excelsior in Coventry and fitted to the historic Corgi minibike. Sprite (motorcycle) Sprite was an historical British brand of off-road motorcycle, built by Frank Hipkin, of Hipkin & Evans, trading as Sprite Motor Cycles, initially at