Hoping to find some information about a chrome plated RM camping stove but am not a subscriber to CCS.
What exactly do you want to know, Jean? If I recall correctly, RM were taken over by Samuel Heath and Sons in May 1950 so an inscribed RM stove must be before that date. With a label, it will be after. Show me yours and I'll let you see mine...
Just wondered what was missing from the tin David. This is all I have. Picked it out from about a dozen stoves offered to me, only bought this one because it’s a cute wee thing!
Very nice, Jean. It took me ages to get one just like that with the RM inscription. I daresay there will be a suitable flame spreader ring for your stove in Trevor's garage when I get back there after the New Year - otherwise it looks complete, I think. I'll have a look over at CCS...
Here's my little chap:- You're also missing the windshield, Jean. Edit: This is all there is over at CCS:- "On the 18th May 1950 RM Manufacturing & Engineering Co Ltd were taken over by Samuel Heath & Sons Ltd. Heaths incorporated the RM brand into their range of products. I do not have any information pertaining to the company prior to 1950. Can you help?" That's from Ross and no-one has answered his plea so it looks like we're all equally in the dark... SH&S were based in Birmingham along with several other stove and lamp manufacturers. As time went on, they seemed to realise that they were each producing their own version of exactly the same stoves and formed a loose amalgamation which I think of as the 'Birmingham Bunch'. At that point I think they shared out the work between themselves so one manufacturer produced the stoves and the rest just stuck their own label on them i.e. label-engineering, somewhat similar to badge-engineering in the car industry e.g. Austin, Morris, Riley and Wolseley in the 1950s and 1960s...
Courtesy of 'Archivist' (Ross, I think) over at CCS:- This is the post-1950 version but the parts will be the same so you may be missing the spirit can, too. A "tundish" is, apparently, a funnel in case you were wondering. It's not a word in my vocabulary, I can tell you...
Six bob for that wee funnel, that’s pretty expensive. In fact it’s all pretty expensive for the 1950s. Oh well, it will be fun to try and find all the missing bits which include the lid of the box too.
@Jean J I didn’t realise you were partial to a stove, however ‘cute’. You’re not being lured by the dark side, are you?
No no Stevie, no fear of that, I’ll stick to lamps thank you. I just hate to go home with nothing, the lamp I saw wasn’t worth travelling for. Didn’t notice that the price was per dozen nep036, so a bargain after all!
I like those roarer camp stoves. They can be pretty noisy. Always keep at least one that's ready for use in an emergency.
Yes - the paperwork was intended for dealers so those are wholesale prices rather than retail. Those tundishes look far too small to be of any real use...
Today I leant a new word, “tundish”. (It’s a fine word, @David Shouksmith). I have a few small funnels that are similar to the one shown above. They are useful for filling stoves with small diameter filling holes (eg Svea 123) or stoves with limited space (like American military stoves). I pour fuel from a Sigg or Trangia bottle. Cheers Tony
