Akron SEQR.?

Hi fellas. This is one of my next fettles,
I think it maybe an Akron version of the Sth Est Queensland Rail , SEQR. Carriage light?
It it was a bit squashed and beat up, but it’s all there. I have looked in the gallery and found one very similar.
Mine the tank at where the fuel feed is soldered closed. The fuel tube still screws onto the tank.
The tank has no fuel cap/ pressure screw for pumping.
On the bottom of the tank they have soldered a shut off valve and removed the stand bracket, there is no backing plate.
My plan is to get it going. If any of you fellas can help me out with a fuel cap or suggestions on an alternative that would be very cool.

 

Interesting fitting on the bottom of the tank. Maybe it was used as a hollow wire tank.

 

Hi @Nils I thought that myself , the valve on the bottom dose have a flange nut that would suit the hollow wire tube.

 

i suspect the air was supplied from the car brake system,
only too "charge" after filling. valve is closed at all other times. the main car supply closed before proceeding too the next car.

 

A fine fettling project.

 

1. Pondering this lamp and parts, and looking at my SEQRs I suspect one option is that the tank was converted to a small fuel tank for storage and supply in someone’s workshop, hence the soldering off of the fuel exit port, and the fitting of the open/shut-off valve at the “bottom of the tank”.

It does not seem logical that pressure for a hollow wire system would be supplied underneath the fuel, unless, of course the tank was operated upside down; but that would require both air and fuel to enter, at different times, past the cock.

What do you think, Darryl and Nils?

2. Which one in the Reference Gallery do you think it’s similar to, Darryl?


Tony

 

My money is that it was used as a hollow wire tank. I heard from Handi Albert once that he had one where the fuel pick up tube had a hole in it. This tube was made of steel and had rusted above the fuel level. The only way to access this tube is to remove one of the ends. This could have happened on this tank, so it was repurposed.

 

I’ll go with you, then, @Nils Stephenson.

Cheers

Tony

 

Darryl, always a nice find these 'SEQR' oddities. Firstly, @Anthony has previously illustrated some slight differences between two different filler caps though are they are fundamentally the same style and shape.

I suggest you find an early Gloria lamp filler cap, the ones with the 4 bits sticking out and these fit the SEQR perfectly. You would just have to remove the 4 posts, plate it, and it would look pretty right.

Alas, the thread and size are so different to things like Coleman, Handi, Aladdin etc.

I would certainly remove the non-standard cock from the bottom of the unit. There should be a a small threaded extension to take the weird steel support. If you require any measurements please PM me.

I know this unit will look sensational when you have finished with it.

Iain