This box comes from Switzerland. Mr. Schatz, who build his own lanterns created this box for the Army, Red Cross. His lanterns are not original HASAG, Leipzig, lanterns. He took the HASAG 151, and copied her. He labeled the lanterns with his own badge. There is nowhere standing HASAG, only in the discription, how to light up the lantern. The box comes with a lot of features. 2x cooking plates 2x shades 2x Fresen lences with hanger 2x clear globes 2x blue globes matches jet, needles, matches can for methyl, can for gasoline fillers Instructions in French, Italian and German Date of manufacturing 1955
I have seen these kits before, but never knew they were that old. I always thought they were much newer. What would the blue glass have been used for?
I think that would be Fresnel lenses, Karli. Hope that helps... My guess about the blue globes would be that they were to be used for night-times allowing patients to sleep but providing sufficient light for staff movement...
Well I wouldn't think they would need them for moving about in the day time. Seriously now, it sounds quite plausible. Have you tried the blue glass Karli? Do they give enough light to see by?
How many would you like? Complete? Never seen them any other way. They came straight out of service/standby as unused surplus. I have seen a few dozen of these sets and the standard army lighting set. Ruedi was doing a fair trade in them a few years back. I think the Swiss army were dumping them all out and Ruedi stood between the army and the skip. He might have bought them from the army though. I can remember seeing Ruedi suraounded by them and boxes of spares at several of the Petromax meetings in Germany and Holland. There are at least two of these hospital sets in the UK and could be more. There are certainly quite a few in Europe as most of the guys who met Ruedi at Menden, Bad Ems and Hall who had a spare €350 bought them. ::Neil::
Oh....alright then, after reading your review Neil, I am going to re-phrase :-) Magnificent Set up. I am sure they are very hard to find complete, here in the US. You are lucky to live where they are in abundance Karli
I don't suppose they are all that common. I don't know how many Ruedi sold and he may not have been the only Swiss to get them from the army. They were stored for emergency use in various underground locations in Switzerland but most were never used. I doubt there were all that many ever made. I can't imagine there were more than a few hundred in total and some will have been used on excercises Etc and possibly trashed. The hospitale set is a specialised applicaton and there may have been only a hundred or so total and the ones we know of with collectors are nearly all there ever was. Only way to know is to ask Ruedi which I can't do as he only speaks Swiss-German. ::Neil::
I like the cook top. Much nicer with an exchangeable one than the fixed one used on the Civil defence Radius 119. I also imagine that they might be a tad bit more efficiant the HASAG way with a fully open passage between the pot (or whichever utensil used) and the mantle.
