That's exactly what I said in my post but in a slightly diffrent way. Interestingly there are very few paraffin lit signals left even on heritage...
No, the signals show a green aspect and is always referred to as green. Blue is very widely used to refer to colours that are not blue, I have a...
It's a signal lamp, sits behind the spectacles (coloured glass) on semaphore signals to give a green, yellow or red aspect at night. semaphore...
You need a bigger shelf!
I agree these lamps burn bright and tend to be reliable, the quality of early vapouriser's appear to be better than later products
Very nice display, planning something similar but looking too wet here in Liverpool tonight.
Johan, the UK will be doing this soon as demand will soon outstrip generating capacity, fortunately I have many lamps to light the house.
No, the glass came from a very rusty 305 that I bought cheaply for the glass and other useful spares.
I don't know about the original glass as mine didn't have one when I purchased it.
George too many lamps like yours turn up for them all to be mix and match. My guess us it's original and dates from the period 1943 - 1945 or even...
The 310 and 315 were only in production for a relatively short time and both are relatively rare compared with the 320 which was in production for...
That's a nice find, doesn't look like its seen much use. The 310 is a good looking lamp, much nicer than the other small glass 315 and 320. Just...
The 310 is one of my newer restorations and it looks great Bialaddin 310
Bialaddin Bowlfire. [ATTACH] Bialaddin 300 AM 1949, 310. 300x Red and Brown Vapalux 300. [ATTACH] Vapalux 300 brown,Bialaddin 310 and early...
I bought this lamp some time ago as part of a job lot, at first I thought it was a standard early 300x which had been badly resprayed mid grey by...
Caldo oils in St Helens also sell paraffin from the pump..
I would try looking at us color (not colour) charts.
Yes it does work eventually I will try your plastic bag trick next time. However it's not the same as good old fashioned paint stripper where you...
For the more stubborn tanks I have left them covered in paint stripper for a couple of days, paint stripper these days is weak compared to what...
I work in the railway industry that is full of them, rightly or wrongly the convention is to capitalise and omit the full stops.
Separate names with a comma.
