Research regarding Cookers, Portable, No. 2

[Colin Alford]

The question still remained:* Was this actually a Canadian Cooker, Portable, No. 2 or did it have some different nomenclature?

I believe this document provides the best evidence that the Canadian Cooker, Portable, No. 2 was in fact a Coleman Model 500 Speed Master.

http://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oo...88/372?r=0&s=1 (Complete document attached)

Unfortunately there is no indication of a date and the document's purpose is unknown other than it was obviously some sort of inventory.* When I first looked at it I believed I was looking at evidence that Canada had produced parts for the British stoves.* Upon further study I noticed that the parts for the No. 2 Cooker had part numbers within the description and many of those numbers started with 500.

I then found this document online on Coleman Canada's current website: http://s7d1.scene7.com/is/content/Co...EED_MASTER.pdf

Compare the part names and numbers between the war-time inventory and the Coleman parts list.

The military inventory also seems to indicate that the Canadian No. 3 cookers were also a Coleman product (possibly a model 412) as most of the repair parts listed start with the digits 412.

One more interesting point to note about the Coleman Manual is that it appears to have a Canadian Military Document number "10M-11-54" on the cover page.* If this is a Canadian Military number it would represent November 1954.