Can any one give me a approximate date when the Tilley pressure indicators were phased out as I have identical models with and without this attachment. Thanks Al
Hello AL, I'm not positive, but I reckon that it was 1964 for the table lamps and it may have been 1962 for the lanterns. Neil may have more precise information, Jeff.
Hi fellows i wondering a while back when and why tilley phased out there pressure indicators, i have read that they can be unreliable and i supose it boils down to cutting costs of manufacture
The BR49A still had the pressure indicator onto 1966+. Al which model? PL53/R1 are 2 early ones I can think of that came without a pressure indicator on occasion.
Tilley may have dropped this indicator during WW2 when supplies were difficult so some product made between 1940 and 1945 comes without and that would include PL53, TL10 and R1s from the period. Basically the pressure tit was used up to the end of production of the A types so X246A has one but X246B does not. B types were introduced about November 1964 and from then onwards there are no products fitted with a pressure tit except for the BR49A which continued to at least August 1965 but of course that has an A type tank. ::Neil::
My 1967 R1A heater still has the pressure indicator. On a side note, does anyone know when the R1A was discontinued? Dan
R1A dates are not simple. The last mention in a price list that I have is 1968 but from the dates on the product I know they were made long after that. The latest date I know of is August 1979. ::Neil::
As Neil has already mentioned, Tilley's WW2., products often have differences because of wartime shortages. Tilley used what they had and what they could obtain during that era. For example, I have had brass PL-53s which had the pressure indicator and others which did not, some of the brass tanks have had brass base plates and some have had steel base plates and some of the of the PL-53., steel tanks have had brass base plates. Tilley pumps from that era are often made from a mixture of steel and brass and some of that era's TL-10s had steel parts too, as did the R1s and there are other more subtle differences too. That all makes the wartime products interesting to collect, but the brass from that period is of poorer quality. Tilley were a practical company, so concerning Tilley's late 1960s and 1970s products, I reckon that they would have used up whatever they had in the stores and just stamped the current date on those products, if I'm correct, that would explain why some of the later products still had the pressure indicator. Jeff.
