The light in the shop doorway in the second picture looks to me like an electric arc lamp. Arc lamps need a relatively large and usually cylinder...
Battery LED lamps have indeed improved a great deal, and LPG lanterns have their merits, but IMO Tilley or other pressure lamps still have a part...
Glad to see that production has belatedly resumed. Too much to hope, I suppose that production of table lamps might also resume ? It should not...
It sounds as though the fuel/air mixture is burning inside the burner, rather then below the burner and within the mantle. Burners do wear out...
I agree, safety warnings are important, especially for new or less experiences members. Parrafin is now much less used than in years gone by, and...
Could it have been a modification in the cold war era, for civil defence purposes ? So as to facilitate removing and then re-fitting the pump...
I thought that one of the merits of petrol burning pressure lamps was that no preheating was needed ? I have somewhere a Coleman dual fuel...
A thread elsewhere on these forums got me thinking, "when was hollow wire lighting last used as the normal lighting of a home or a business" ? I...
It was a passenger train, individual compartments without corridor, so the only easy access to each lamp was external. Said to be about 1870 to...
Just wondering if anyone watched this, and if so what type of lamp was used to light the railway carriage. It was demonstrated that the lamps...
Would this be a suitable weapon for the Haggis hunt ? Not certain that I would care to tackle a haggis with my bare hands, but a modern firearm...
Fixed railway signals were indeed lit by long burning wick lamps, designed for weekly filling but with a longer burn time to give a margin. The...
Could these lamps have been made or bodged, not for general railway use, but as specials for lighting the warning boards that advise drivers of...
As a new member it would seem to me that hollow wire lamps are, by any common sense definition, a type of pressure lamp and therefore a proper...
Thanks, I have now placed a "wanted" notice in the trading section.
having thought about this for a bit, I think that the way forward is to consider buying a Tilley table lamp, perhaps via this forum. Something a...
Fortunately I have a number of new unused vaporisers purchased about 20? or 25? years ago, presumably these predate the more recent quality...
I already have an Alladin mantle lamp but am not entirely satisfied with it for regular use. The wicks and mantles are expensive, and I have a...
Interesting, thanks for the information. It does however seem to be a bit odd to go to the trouble, fuel consumption and capital cost of a...
Of the paraffin burning pressure lamp variety. I don't fancy Coleman fuel/petrol indoors, and a duplex wick lamp is not really bright enough. I...
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