Taymar butane lamp

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  1. presscall

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    I thought this worthy of a post in the Reference Gallery of ‘classics’ because of the enamelled hood clearly based on a Tilley equivalent and the corresponding frosted 171-pattern globe. There was some discussion in THIS post of a globe such as this.

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    A Taymax-branded refillable butane tank, equipped with a Campingaz outlet screw fitting and with a stamped impression of one of the feet to specify a 3lbs (1.36kg) butane capacity.

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    The lamp’s control knob marks it as a Taymar product.

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    The globe has no identifying maker’s mark.

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    The hood, based on a Tilley pattern …

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    … but without the inner hood component on which the burner is mounted - dismantled here for THIS Tilley X359 project.

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    Other manufacturers too were evidently inspired by the Tilley hood and globe, such as this Carrigas product on sale in 1961.

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    The advertisement refers to Carrigas as the company marketing that lamp, but with a company T.G.A. as the manufacturer. T.G.A. was Tudorcourt Gas Appliances, which I encountered with THIS butane stove.

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    I haven’t located an example of the T.G.A. lamp however. I expect sales of the Campingaz-fitting Taymar lamp benefitted from the French company’s market saturation, swamping the Carrigas operation. T.G.A. gas cylinders and the stoves are rare survivors in comparison to Campingaz and CG-fitting contemporaries.

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    Tilley got in on the act (butane lamps) too of course, such as THIS Bottogas-fitting contraption.

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    They improved on that - sleeker, more compact - with their GL602, but dropping the characteristic Tilley hood and globe.

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    What a cute wee thing that blue lamp is @presscall.
     
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    The Taymar is in good condition John :thumbup:
     
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    @Jean J A change from Tilley brown and black hoods certainly!

    @ROBBO55 I suspect that with no physical connection to the hood, the butane burner doesn’t subject the enamel to the same stresses that the paraffin burner does.
     
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    Very interesting post there John :thumbup:

    i don’t think i knew that these were Taymax ? maybe i thought they were a tilley gassie trial but evidently not!

    i seem to remember seeing these in different colours but there's a possibility of a memory flux incapacitation inferance.. :/
     

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