I can't believe this topic is still going ! I am enthralled by the information that has been given in answer to my long ago question. Who would have thought it ? Of course, the main success was that I was given the answer that I wanted. IA ers  are unbelievable! Thanks to everyone, it is just fascinating.

And that's not all, Jacques...I used to know an old geezer in Brighton who swore blind that a good blob of Germolene was just the thing for his itchy piles. Worked every time. Mind you, he would've probably said the same thing about a squirt of WD40.

Any other odd uses for Germolene?

I am now 91 and I remember my mother always used Germolene when
I was a small boy.

Your mother must have been one of the very first users of Germolene, Mr Taylor seeing as Germolene was invented in 1925 by the cough mixture tycoon, Sir William Henry Veno.

So that's where Veno's (the famous cough mixture of childhood) comes from! I've often wondered if it was just a made-up laboratory name. Arise Sir William Veno. But fancy being named after a cough mixture! I bet his kids got given a really tough time at school.

Mind yerself, Gerry, looks like you're about to have a load of visitors in the night trying to snaffle your pink tube.
So to speak.

Germolene ointment is still made under licence by Aspen Phamacare in South Africa.
It is sold in 20g and 50g plastic tubes. The original UK metal tubes were 27g as a comparison.
I ordered 10 tubes from and on line store in South Africa (called ZimSeller) at £100 when tax and shipping was included.
20 tubes actually arrived so I have listed 10 on ebay to clear as I don't need so many.
I guess you can order form SA or ebay as there seem to be a fair number of sellers there now.

In most retail UK outlets Germolene comes in a tube packaged in a small carton. The contents might have a hint of pink but it's definitely a cream and the smell registers about 25% potency of the Original Smell (my method!).
The Old formula Ointment in the tin described in the postings contained a Deep Pink, Intense smelling Sticky Ointment. Almost universally mothers used this ointment on cuts and particularly frequently grazed knees! If applied to a badly grazed knee in generous quantity and bandaged, when a new dressing was needed one found that all the grit and gravel that had got in to the wound came cleanly away with the removal of the old dressing leaving the wound clean and benefitting from the antiseptic qualities of the ointment - something the modern day version singularly fails to do.
I believe the 1950s 1960s Ointment in a Tin displayed Gold Medals that the company who made it then (or even earlier) had been awarded for the product. Nowadays its in the same Run Of The Mill category as Boots Own, TCP and other small quantity overpriced "Antiseptic" Creams and is but a shadow of its Quality Forerunner.

 
...and hats off to Angene International if they do actually call it Benzenemethanaminium,N,N-diethyl-N-[2-[4-(2,2,4-trimethylpentyl)phenoxy]ethyl]-, chloride) 'cos that's more than I can do!

I came here hoping someone would know where to get hold of some as I've been looking for years  .

So I've just contacted Bayer here in the UK, as suggested by someone earlier.  Here's the link if anyone else wants to add their voice: You need to put an s on the end of the http, it's then triple w followed by bayer and because we're in the UK you need to end it dot co dot uk.   After that it's slash en slash SSL slash contact.php
(sorry, seems I'm not allowed to post an external URL - which seems odd when you consider the number of external URLs that were in the thread)

Thanks for that and going to the trouble of spelling out the link, I'll reproduce it here for ease http://www.bayer.co.uk/en/ssl/contact.php
You only couldn't post a live link due to being new, if you get your post count up you will find you'll be able to then post live links should you want to, it's just an anti-spam measure 

Like many others I have used Germolene ointment all my life as my first aid product of choice. It was my mother's alternative to going to hospital !

I managed to get one final tube from a South African seller but when that goes it will be the end of an era :-(