Here you go Ray couple of pictures of a lamp stall in the auto jumble years back now 2003 Don't see them like this anymore I suspect Notice a pile of Solar scrap wonder who those were??? cheers pete
Still havn't been there yet. Only lived next door for 40 years and still unlikely to ever go. It is mega-expensive to get in, horrendously bad traffic congestion, parking and stupid prices for absolutely everything, from entance fee to a burger . Give me the Ashover Festival anyday - Steve
For the wallets sake, it's a good job there aren't any stalls like that these days. Not many pictures from last years rally, but her's my few.
Now that's what I call a lamp stall Pete and they must be Mick's Solar's that he was banging out for a tenner a pop ! Always nice to see pics, and thanks for posting them Pete Cheers
Hi ray yes they are micks solars he sold hundreds of them he conned me into buying 2 shiny and cheap I fell for it Here is a couple of engine pics I really liked this one was something special made in Stamford like the kitson lamp place cheers pete
Hi ! That was 2003 when I had a sales pitch down at Dorset with Len Ralph. 10 days of selling and the Dorset dust was horrendous , no rain in those days ! 2004 and 2005 I was there with Len and renata selling lamps even got Kenny over from Ireland in 2004 helping for first 3 days. Its an amazing place to go to ,but all a bit rough and ready or prehaps that should be written " rough and rank " the toilet blocks are not for the feint hearted best taking your own ! I sold 140 solar lamps in 5 days at the auto jumble pitch in 2003 ! Yes some of those lamps in boxes were destine for the scrap heap , the challenge the collectors had was working out which lamps were a goer !! To give collectors an idea of costs . In 2003 a double sales pitch was the minimum if you turned your caravan sideways and transit van and the cost £400 plus vat . , then theres fuel there and back from Ipswich , cost to hire transit for ten days with hook on back for 20 foot caravan. Grub and alot of use of mobile phone getting more spares sent to site daily from Tilley lamp company !In those days Tilley were really helpfull ! How much would it cost in 2013 for pitch to sell lamps ? just forget it !! Mick
Hi Ray. The engine is a blackstone. It runs on kero and that is its original blow lamp. Wish it was part of my engine collection, but due to lack of room and the wife it wont be. Nigel
As Nigel said, it's original, or atleast an original type of heater for horizontal hot bulb engines like that one. If you visit CCS, you will see that they pop up there since many people mistake them for large stoves. They were, atleast in Sweden, generally delivered with the engines even if the heaters themselves often were made by Sievert or Primus as in this catalogue image of a Torps bruk engine (I think. It was a while ago I scanned it):
Thanks for the info Christer mustn't get to interested here as it wouldn't take a lot to get hooked And I'm having trouble finding both time and space for the hobbies I have already Cheers
couple more of micks pics here some sort of trailer with a earth mover in the middle big thing whatever it is pete
so how many people go here on a regular bassis ? Would be nice to put names to faces ??? I will be there this year in the stationary engine section , anyone visiting feel free to come find me for a chat . matt
