HSBC~ Left handed cheque books

[auzzie]

Do they still do them? They used to years ago.

[auzzie]

DTcrosswordfan~ What have i accused you of exactly?

[bednobs]

dt, do you take drugs in the evenings or something? I can usually understaND posts that you make during the day, but in the evenings, your posts become a bit ... incoherent. I'm sure you know what you mean, but i don't know if anyone else does!

[scotman]

My (HBOS) cheque book has separate pages for keeping records. Makes the book smaller and more convenient. As I said, been like that for decades.

[bednobs]

oh! but that means you have to write the cheque number in your records yourself?

[DTCwordfan]

//Talk about asking a simple question........................
I take it no one knows then//

Ahem

[scotman]

"oh! but that means you have to write the cheque number in your records yourself? "

Good grief! how have I ever survived this desperate imposition.

[bednobs]

just thinking what an extra pain it it - 1 to write the cheque, then having to write all of the details of the cheque down somewhere else. I can barely be bothered to fill in the stub, let alone copy the number down as well

[shaneystar2]

I've just asked my husband who was a corporate accountant in a former life .
Yes they used have left handed cheque books as far back as 2001 shortly before he retired .
He's a leftie and remembers them well .
He doesn't know if they still issue them now though .

[DTCwordfan]

I have no idea what you are talking about, bednobs......

If as to our beloved scotman, the potential linkage implied to the disaster called Scottish banks as in RBS or BoS.......nice to know someone north of the border is a customer as I thought that they had long ago migrated to the Clydesdale.

[bednobs]

"They did those as well for the vertically impaired, excellent service worthy of the the two Bronze Lions, Stephen and Stitt"

i have no idea what this means, but i'm sure you do?

[gingejbee]

I'm surprised that any body still uses cheques - left- or right-handed.

[DTCwordfan]

In the Far East, you could get them with stubs on which quadrant you preferred, certainly for corporate purposes......I do not know if this has continued .

This is an environment where the left hand is shunned as well. Right hand is for food etc, left hand is for the bum (just as in the Middle East). Seriously be aware of it you left handers.....

[Mamyalynne]

Stephen and Stitt
8 Canada Square has a pair of bronze lions guarding the main entrance. These are copies of a pair nicknamed "Stephen" and "Stitt" which have stood outside the Bank's Headquarters at 1 Queen's Road Central in Hong Kong since 1935. The Hong Kong lions are named after yet another pair of lions that guarded the Bank's Shanghai headquarters on The Bund after it opened in 1923. The original Stephen and Stitt were named for A G Stephen, the then Chief Manager and the driving force behind the Shanghai development, and G H Stitt, the Manager in Shanghai. This was an in-joke: The lions face each other, and one (Stephen) is portrayed as if roaring, the other sitting quietly. Messrs Stephen and Stitt were said to have personalities as diverse.
The lions were cast within sight of the development by the Bronze Age Sculpture Casting Foundry in Limehouse

[ubasses]

HSBC always did both left and right handed cheque books, both with either stubs or a few pages of balance sheets to keep a running record at the front. I still get both types of cheque book and they still did the left handed ones when I retired nearly 7 years ago.

[bednobs]

even your "explanation" confuses me!

[DTCwordfan]

Thank you, mamya, at least there is someone around here au fait with the importance of the Hong Kong and Shanghai in our Imperial history.

[twix123]

My NatWest chequebooks don't have stubs, but contain separate pages for recording cheques etc

[auzzie]

ok, enough already. Thank you to all those with relevant answers. I'll call the bank first thing Monday!