Newark was very wet, very windy (especially Thursday night!) but despite the weather was well attended and great fun. Some very,very good displays, but not a good weekend for photography, unles you took a sub-aqua camera! Here are a few that I managed to snap between showers. First - Wim test burning some sort of flame-thrower that probably is a banned weapon of war by now. Next - Big Si trying to torch his car. Then John (Presscall) with his amazingly up-market picnic kettle and spirit stove; note the quality Denby Pottery teapot as well! Our John knows how to rough it! Finally - Presscall again with his colleague Henry, who kindly attended to take some professional photographs. As I said, Presscall knows how to travel; you should have smelled the fabulous Chinese cooking. Thanks Henry, and I look forward to the pictures. Won't miss it next year, whatever the weather throws at us. Steve.
Great pics steve i am looking forward to seeing more of newark on here and over on CCS,and i have allso been looking forward to seeing Wim's Unique blowtorch/lamp in action. A real shame the weather was not good, for you all but a great time all the same.
Once properly warmed up (couple of minutes after Steve took the photograph), this is what Wanda looks like on full song! I hope someone can provide more info on this Unique blowlamp, it really has a funny shape but performs like the best. By the way, this is the only photo I took at Newark, somehow the weather was not very 'inspiring' to get out the camera! As we are planning to visit Cornwall the second half of July, I do hope the weather will get back to 'normal' by then 8) Best regards all, Wim
Hi Wim what a brilliant performer your Unique blowtorch is, All i know about the shape of the torch, is as i mentioned in a earlier post of yours,the flat shape was designed for the Auto mechanic,so it could be stored flat in a tool box,where space is needed.Where as most other tradesman like plumbers decorators etc caried there tools in a bag,so the larger torch with the standard round tank space was not a problem. I have a book on collectable blowtorches and the flat type like yours in America were known as Auto torches. In the two pics below is the book i have and a page with your Unique blowtorch and a few otheres as you will see the red colour is most proberbly original
Hi Brian, thanks a lot mate! This is very usefull information. So, it looks like this Unique was made in the US? Maybe it came to Belgium as a tool for an American army mechanic. I learn something new every day on CCS & CPL . All the best, Wim
Hi Wim you are welcome, a very good point there i cant say for sure it is American made but the burner is a very typical American style. The book does have a small foreign section, with a few European torches in it but the Unique is not in that section,these two points makes me think it is a American made torch ,But i must admit even though the tank is flat it still has a different shape to the normal square shape,and the Author of the book does say it is quite a rare example
That torch is model 0 made by the Unique Manufacturing Co., Chicago, Illinois USA. This one is a later style probably made in the 1950s and no I don't do blow torches but I do have a copy of the American Blow torch bible here. ::Neil::
Hi Neil, many thanks for the info! And I don't do torches eighter, but could not resist this one! (I have 5 or 6 torches, half of them work). The shape and style of the burner made me think it could be older than the '50's, but maybe they preferred not to change a proven design or had a vast stock of 'old' burners. It is rather heavy cast bronze, even the fillercap is a solid cast item. Makes it a bit 'top-heavy'. Anyway, thanks gents for all info provided! All the best, Wim
The bible says the fuel tanks of those were early ones cast steel and later examples sheet steel with pump/filler and later again sheet steel with seperate filler cap. Yours looked like the last version. ::Neil::
If it's lamp pictures you want it's lamp pictures I will give you . Al put up quite a display with some rather nice lamps. Neil had some very interesting lamps to make everyone There was plenty of heat and light being kicked out of the gazebo up this end of the field. The second Fl5 that attended the meet did a good job lighting the field. And of course my humble little display. My newly acquired Al21 and recently restored Fl5 also threw out a respectable amount of light. It got a little chilly later on so we had to fire up the R1 as well. And a night shot of the fettlers arms. My flood lamp on the left and the other on the right. Hope you like the pictures. Best regards Matthew
Er, I think you mean conceived, machined and assembled with care, skill and precision by a former Rolls-Royce engineer, Jeff... 8)
I imagine it is the love child of two other lamps Having said that the owner who's names I cannot for the life of me remember did a superb job making a new single intake burner for the flood lamp and also did a good job on the vapalux hospital lamp.
...and the Tilley/AGM hybrid table lamp! I think 'cobbled together' must have a completely different meaning in the very far North...
Hello David, yes, it's actually a compliment and I refer to my own hybrid lamps as being cobbled together, Jeff.
Brilliant pics lampies a realy nice collection i am realy looking forward to seeing more on here and over at CCS. And Mathew you say your collection is humble but a very nice one all the same and growing and well done on a great post
I think it can be translated like this: "ower" in the English pronounciation will sound like "over" in Flemish (or Dutch) and in this case could mean "more". "blyde" looks like "blij" in Flemish (or Dutch) which means "happy"" so I would guess David means he's a happy puppy! Wim
Hello David, I see that the Shetlandic influence is spreading! Hello Wim, that's a correct translation, blyde can mean happy or pleased, it depends on the context of the conversation. Can you translate the following sentence? Boy, geng du an gluff yon Swabbies an Bonxies fir dir efter da caddie yamalds idda cro.
Errr Jeff, I think I'll have to sleep a (couple of) night(s) on that one! . A few "parts" sound slightly familiar, but I think I'll have to pass this one on... . All the best, Wim
Well, a "bonxie" is a Great Skua (Stercorarius skua) Apparently, those Shetlanders do something absolutely disgusting with them before they eat them - leave them in tar or brine or something to suppurate for 6 months before cooking. I saw it on the telly a while ago, but I didn't manage to see the end of the programme - too busy chundering (for our Aussie correspondent ) Edit - and a "swabbie" is a Lesser Black-Backed Gull (it says here...) Edit 2 - "You go and frighten off those Lesser Black-Backed Gulls and Great Skuas" etc... Edit 3 - a "caddie" (or kaddie) is an orphaned lamb, hand-reared, often in the house.
