I thought this worthy of a post in the Reference Gallery of ‘classics’ because of the enamelled hood clearly based on a Tilley equivalent and the corresponding frosted 171-pattern globe. There was some discussion in THIS post of a globe such as this. A Taymax-branded refillable butane tank, equipped with a Campingaz outlet screw fitting and with a stamped impression of one of the feet to specify a 3lbs (1.36kg) butane capacity. The lamp’s control knob marks it as a Taymar product. The globe has no identifying maker’s mark. The hood, based on a Tilley pattern … … but without the inner hood component on which the burner is mounted - dismantled here for THIS Tilley X359 project. Other manufacturers too were evidently inspired by the Tilley hood and globe, such as this Carrigas product on sale in 1961. The advertisement refers to Carrigas as the company marketing that lamp, but with a company T.G.A. as the manufacturer. T.G.A. was Tudorcourt Gas Appliances, which I encountered with THIS butane stove. I haven’t located an example of the T.G.A. lamp however. I expect sales of the Campingaz-fitting Taymar lamp benefitted from the French company’s market saturation, swamping the Carrigas operation. T.G.A. gas cylinders and the stoves are rare survivors in comparison to Campingaz and CG-fitting contemporaries. John
Tilley got in on the act (butane lamps) too of course, such as THIS Bottogas-fitting contraption. They improved on that - sleeker, more compact - with their GL602, but dropping the characteristic Tilley hood and globe.
@Jean J A change from Tilley brown and black hoods certainly! @ROBBO55 I suspect that with no physical connection to the hood, the butane burner doesn’t subject the enamel to the same stresses that the paraffin burner does.
