Hi everyone i am in need of help with this unic lamp not sure what model number it is. Also need to find where i can get a glass for it and someone that could make me an air tube and burner. john
This is a Hollow wire Unic model 2 lamp with the 400cp burner. This is one of the models listed in the 1953 Haupois flyer but crossed out in 1963. It could therefore be made at any time from the 1930s to the mid 1950s. ::Neil::
Hi, You also need the vent part with holes, you can see on these Unic 9 lamps. Neil – according to Michel this Unic Lumiere “3 impasse Moulin Joly” must be before 1930, as the Rue Moulin Joly was opened from being a dead end street (impasse), to a street, in 1930. The G. Haupois we know of was situated on 5, Rue de Moulin-Joly! /Conny
Well that is handy information. It pushes the Unic brand back further than I thought. I supect this means that E Brodier was making and selling Unic product in the 1920s and that it is becoming very possible that Brodier took over from Liotard Aine after 1922 and before 1930. We are beginning to see the progression here. ::Neil::
Neil – the last known Liotard Aine catalogue is from 1922, so maybe Brodier was back in business already in mid to late 20,s with the Unic Lumiere brand. If G. Haupois already at that point was associated with Brodier is still to prove. /Conny
Yes that is what I suspect. It would be interesting to find out about Mr Brodier because I suspect he may well have been a company officer continuously from around 1910 to when he sold out to Haupois. A couple of times new money meant a change of the majority shareholder and company name until in the 1920s Brodier regained control. Then I guess he retired pehaps in the 1930s or 1940s and sold the brand name and company to Haupois. We would need to see the company records if they still exist. ::Neil::
Damned I could have looked and guessed this earlier : All my Unic embossed tank lamps have a manometer with "3, impasse du Moulin Joly". Therefore, they are pre1930. whilst my Unic 9 is marked "5, rue du Moulin Joly" or have no marking. Please guys, have a look at your lamp karli ; you have what i think to be a first (in fact a couple) model of unic 9 tell me if i am right this don't help us in finding the date of the take over of Unic by G Haupois but i am quite sure all those embossed tanks are Brodier's production.
hello Round globes are very hard to find, but you can also fit a tulip Those burners need a specific size tulip I will have a look in my shed, perhaps i have a tulip for you ? Send me a mail if interested
Hi i very am interested my email address is j.coleburt@tiscali.co.uk If you can give me price as well i will send straight away. Thank you very much for your help. john
Sorry Conny but you are wrong i discovered this morning that the n°1 burner has not the enameled ventilator on the top, therefore this burner is almost complet
Michel, As Neil did I saw this as a number 2 Unic hollow wire lamp. Obviously we were wrong, and as you now show us and claim this to be a Unic number 1 lamp, I could only agree with you. If the numbering also follow a timeline this ought to be one of the first lamps made of the Unic brand. /Conny
Oops. Only one out but it seems we were indeed wrong. You have to assume that number one is indeed early in the production. ::Neil::
