Tilley SP1

Here is a tilley SP1 that showed up at newark years back nice to see one
Cheers pete

 

Thank you indeed for posting that!

Do you know if it’s still in safe hands?


Tony

 

Dont know where it could be now tony
The collector Gorden was a great guy should think he is no longer with us

 

A grand and very scarce lamp!

 

Only one i ever seen jeff

 

Hello Pete, I have never seen one in the flesh so to speak.
Perhaps the SP1 had a short production run and I wonder what situations it would have been used in, any ideas anyone?
The rarest Tilley which I have is an R-2 and the link below shows it and there is a link in the thread which shows an unused example and I knew of another collector who had the tank for an R-2.
Does anyone know of other examples?

TILLEY R2.

 

Yes a short run most likely jeff i do remember it projected a beam of light a very long way tho

 

Hello Pete, perhaps the SP1 was used on airfields, but until some relevant paperwork turns up it's all speculation.