Welcome to the forum. Your 'field fire' was due to inadequate pre-heating. You also need a tin chimney to contain the pre-heating flame so as to...
Well done! So the petroleum spirit is forced into the heater (presumably heated by the same fuel) to produce a gas, mixed with air from the...
Looks more like a hot air heating device. This would be mounted on a wall in the vertical position. The spirit cup is there for pre-heating, and...
Oooh - I don't know now. I was useless at exams.
There's a test? Can I try?
I have a despatching blog? Ooo-er . . Better not waffle on about the Zoo keeper period or tower crane driving then! Sometimes I wonder how I...
Yes, TYCHO was built by Yarwoods at Northwich. Got to Chester in '89, but not with TYCHO. 'Middle' Northwich refers to the size of the boat....
TYCHO's fore end was strengthened and overplated within. At work C1961/2: [ATTACH] . . . and with some enthusiastic rocking! "We got her down...
Ah well, apologies for the off topic; the shed was a scratch built 12' x 12' square, shiplap clad on a 4" x 2" framework lined and insulated on a...
That was the French Pechenard I installed in my former shed in St Albans: [ATTACH] It was super cosy: [ATTACH] This was the 'narrow' one:...
It MAY be carbide, but Indian were fitting electric lamps to their motorcycles from 1914, so it could be electric. ETA: Having looked at various...
Obviously a Tilley, but for comparison: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Careful - you'll have the Freddy Frinton Defence League come knocking . . . horned helmets and all.
It's a different beastie, but might some of the components from these be involved?...
Apathy is the tool of government. Another is to create groups that are on the face of it lauding a good cause, but underneath work the opposite...
Pals. [ATTACH] Whisper the Abyssinian cross went on to 23yrs, Mutch the Chihuahua 12yrs (lifelong heart problem), and Pippin, succumbed to...
The older people get with (generally) more disposable income, the more they will seek the items that were once commonplace, and which they...
The first post shows the lamp with the glass raised. The little crank at the top is used to do this allowing lighting to take place. As Wim says,...
I don't think much ageing went on between those two shots! Impressive.
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