I've chosen to post this lantern here, as I am sure this was assembled in Australia by the the Gloria Light Company of Australasia. It is essentially a Lind-O-Lite 119 (as shown here by Neil McRae) but it has the Australian Gloria 33 fuel control block and wheel, and an Australian Gloria generator (vapouriser) as seen on the Gloria 33. The black tank (fount) is stamped Lind-O-Lite, and the burner is the Lind-O-Lite 119 burner. This first photo is the completed lantern with the parts that I had. I manufactured and borrowed some replacements for the missing parts. Here with my home-made final and borrowed bail. As it came (but after the collar was de-rusted and primed). Fettling this lantern: The tank was very rusty, so I cleaned off all the paint, removers the fuel block, then soaked it in "Evaporust" (a chelating solution) for a week, washing it out every day or so. I treated the other steel parts (not the burner) similarly. After all the rust was removed it was clear that there were some small rust holes. I decided to bite the bullet and get the Australian equivalent of POR 15, called "KBS Gold Standard Tank Sealer". After preparing the tank for the sealer, I put some sealer in the tank and ensured that the entire inside of the tank was coated. I then pressurised the tank with a battery operated car tyre pump to force the sealant through any holes to the outside of the tank. After the required period of having the sealer in the tank, I poured it out and then painted the outside of the tank with it. After a week of hardening, I sanded the tank and repainted it black. It's still pock marked but entirely functional. Note that the small hole in the hex fitting on the underside of the fuel pickup is soldered over. I made finial from a bolt that was filed to accept a brass ring brazed to it. I used two brass discs to sandwich the hood between the disc at the top of the Lind-O-Lite burner and the finial bolt. I borrowed a bail from a "Campway" lantern. I am very pleased to have this lantern. It is unusual, and represents another component in the Australian Gloria story. I am also very pleased to have got it back in operating order. Cheers Tony @Mackburner @Anthony @Lamp_Doctor @Akeepsake
A very nice restoration job. This lantern is kinda strange although maybe not so much as at first sight. Gloria 33 lamps and lanterns are copies of Lind-O-Lite product of the period. I initially thought they were just rebranded L&H product but this is not the case as in general Gloria 33 lamps don't have the L&H stamping in the base and the burner castings are Australian made. So I concluded that Gloria were copying L&H lamps with permission. There was certainly a trading link and this lantern sort of confirms that with a mixture of American and Australian parts. This lantern could be a sort of prototype or very early production of Gloria 33 before Gloria tooled up to make all the parts. Either way I would guess it's early for the type and therefore likely to be from 1933 when the model was first offered for sale in Aus. An interesting piece of Goria/Lind-O-Lite history. ::Neil::
I note that I’ve made an absent-minded error in the first post of this thread. The Lind-O-Lite I referred to should be the 116 not 119 (paragraphs 1 and 2). Cheers Tony
