Tilley PL53

I picked these two up last month, I’m guessing mid 30s. Did the earlier PL53 model have the riser tube under the control cock ?

 

Yeah, nice early ones with the coiled handles, getting harder to find those

 

Good finds!

As far as I know the 1920's PLs., did not have a riser tube.

 

And did the later PL not have the riser tube Jeff ?

 

This is going to be a hard one to give an accurate answer to.
The pictures in the catalogues are not much help.

I have been looking into this but I don’t have my notes with me.
@Tony Press will have something to add.

 

Very nice early PLs!

 

I see I’ve been dropped in it by @Anthony...

Darren raises an interesting question here, about the presence or absence of a fuel riser on the PLs. Anthony and I have been pondering this question and it’s hard to get an clear picture of what the pattern is (and why).

[I note that my EX 93 has a riser, and it’s the only one I’ve seen with the riser].

I think I’ll start a new thread “Does Your PL53 have a riser?”

Cheers

Tony

 

They look like a great find to me well done.

 

In my opinion, Tilley started using riser tubes on the PLs., around 1930.

Darren Holt

 

The link below shows two of my copper ML., tanks and the small tank has a riser tube and there is more information shown there.

2, Copper ML-tanks. 2 photos
Tony Press

 

See here:

Tilley EX93

Tony

 

Thanks Tony.