Pressure lantern

[Mike K]

A wartime advert for the Handi lantern. I don't know how they can claim it is 'all British' because these lanterns were made in Brisbane.

1940 and 42 Coleman adverts. Apparently the KAYEN was an Australian copy of the Tilley

[Mike K]

More strange wartime adverts. The British Coleman ! Seems everything is British made.

[Lynn Eades]

Mike I'm not sure what makes up the fuel sold for running cookers, stoves, lights etc. but those fuel names I mentioned were just petrol without the lead additive back in the day. See the wording with your add for the Model no. 3 lamp.
My unused lamp is a British made "Bialladin" Model 305, made in 1964 and broad arrow marked and has a W.O. Cat No. JA5557.

[Mike K]

That's a nice lantern.

Some info here http://tgmarsh.faculty.noctrl.edu/uklant.html

Looks like Coleman maybe did have a factory in the UK , so 'British made' is probably correct for some of the Coleman models.I will ask the guys on the Coleman forum

[Mike K]

It appears that most of the Coleman lanterns ran on petrol. Maybe kero was not as easy to buy in Nth America ? Many petrol stations here ( and the UK ? ) used to have a kero bowser as many houses had those smelly kero heaters .

http://www.oldtowncoleman.com/manuals/tb_qm_47.pdf

[maple_leaf_eh]

Kerosene is not common, except for those portable carbon monoxide generators, sold as indoor heaters. The typical kerosene lamp in Canada has a cotton wick on a little adjustment wheel, and it smokes worse than six old dolls out on a Saturday night at the bingo parlour. (Youtube Stompin' Tom Connors' "Sudbury Saturday Night" for more cultural reference)

What we call White Gas or Naphtha is clear and almost odourless distillate. It is sold in the equivalent of 1 gallon tin jugs with a cap and neck guaranteed to slop fuel everywhere. The Army's version of a container has a long plastic spout that is easier to control, but still manages to pour fuel everywhere. They are typically dark green and have orange fittings.

[Mike K]

I found this early Austramax lantern and it appears it could be WW2 vintage.

The citric acid in warm water does wonders for cleaning up these old lanterns

[Mike K]

I picked this up recently . A D/\D marked Austramax . It is a earlier model, there is a chance it was made during WW2 but not sure.