I started looking for one of these lamps after my dad gave me a rusty old efar 608 mantle tin with some spare jets inside. This example needed some fettling to run correctly, after playing with jets and air gaps the trouble turned out to be a blocked generator. There is no brass mesh wrapped around the pricker rod which may explain how it became blocked. It currently has a 200cp jet fitted but seems happy enough for now.
That's a Petromax being sold in India I think. Imported from Germany. Has the same built quality. EFAR = F.R.? F.R. Racek. That should be a 300/350cp lantern. You'll get it brighter by changing the jet to 350cp (Petromax or clones would do).
This is the first time I have seen one with EFAR stamped everywhere. Usually there is some hint of the Petromax legacy. Maybe he did actually have some made in India? What is the build quality like?
The tank is stamped 300cp so I will change the jet when I find one. The build quality is superb so my best guess is that it was made in Germany by petromax but marked as efar to be sold as it's own brand overseas. I also have a 200cp hasag which has the same logo and initials stamped but also retained the hasag decal. That lamp wasn't branded efar but was Racek 608 special.
Racek rebranded them EFAR anyway. If not mistaken, he was an Austrian. An importer/trader of Petromax, Hasag, etc lamps, lanterns and such in India. The quality of the items are good.
Petromax did not make anything, its a brand name. The factory was called Graetz (G) or Ehrich&Graetz (E&G)
Very nice find Franz Racek was the general importer of pressure lamps of the factorys Hugo Schneider AG (Hasag) and Ehrich &Graetz (Petromax) for India,Ceylon and Burma. Its two main brand names for this market were EFAR and RAX. Due to Alliied dominance on on the world's oceans,a supply of the indian market was no longer possible in 1941 at the latest.From this point on he had manufactured pressure lamps directly in India. There are supposed to be weird combinations of the time. Regards Reinhard
