I think I have a decent Coleman need to find a globe Its the other wee monster that I am clueless on .
The stove is a British second world war stove generally refered to as a Hurlock, you can find out more over at CCS: http://classiccampstoves.com/threads/hurlock-military-stove.30735/ Yes, you've got a nice coleman 339 there, the Kerosene variant of the 335. Not for sale is it?
Yes, a Hurlock although they were sold at the end of hostilities re-badged under various civvy-type names - I think Fairy might have been one of them. They work OK but are rather unexciting and heavy into the bargain. Not a patch on the equivalent G.I. stoves from WWII. Yours has the windshield which is often missing. If you have the variant with the hinged pump-knob you'll soon find out how good it is at removing the skin from the top knuckle joint of the middle finger of your pumping hand...
I can appreciate enamelled hooded lanterns a lot more when I see them in the shape your lanterns hood is in. I think you have made an outstanding purchase and of a lantern that would sit proud in any collection.
'Polly' definitely was - as in 'Polly, put the kettle on', presumably... ...although it might take a while i.e. forever, to boil with a flame like that!
Polly was quite good to control add some pressure bigger flame release some and small flame to keep Polly ticking over As I did not have the flame spreader it was pointless putting it up full blast.
I remember being a young teenager, about 15ish, and Suzuki brought out a bike with a radiator. They too were nicknamed 'Polly' as in 'Polly put the kettle on' I'd forgotten about those memories from my youth until I read what you wrote. My brother had a 750 Kawasaki that was a wicked bike in it's day and he was most unimpressed with the Suzuki. He came home one day and said he'd just been in a punch up in the middle of town at a busy intersection. He was sitting at a red light when one of the afore mentioned Suzuki's pulled up alongside him. He went on to say that he made an 'innocent' quip - read being a smart arse - to the quite substantial rider of the Suziki something along the lines of, "Hey dickhead, how long does it take 'Polly' to $%#@$%# boil?" My brother went on to explain that for some reason the quite substantial, in size and of tattoo's rider, took exception and got off his bike to 'discuss' things further.
