Military Tilley lamps

[Tony B]

Does anyone know if there was a specific military Tilley lamp? I've got the British Army 'Doctors' Tilley lamp, and wondered if there was a GS version?

[snowtracdave]

Don't know that it was a specific military version - other than being painted green - but I bought one from Green Machine Surplus a year or so back which went into my nieces lamp collection . Last time I looked they still had some for sale .

[Tony B]

Thanks Dave, I'm getting rather a collection of Tilleys and Optimus stoves. Great light and will heat a tent.

[Dougiebarder]

This is a modern one

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MILITARY-WILLIS-BATES-2003-TILLEY-LAMP-UNUSED_W0QQitemZ140246501444QQihZ004QQcategoryZ117112QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

But if you search E-bay, they come up quiet regularly.

[Tony B]

That's Tilley Principal. Actually at a £5 worth going for, they will heat a tent beautiffully. I reckon them superior to the gas ones, if it a bit more exciting to bering into action.

[Tony B]

Answered the question, just been given a Baladin model 305 arrow marked and dated 1953. For those intrested in these useful bits of kits, gives light and heat try these sites:

http://www.jmoncrieff.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.base-camp.co.uk/default.htm

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

A bit more exciting the man sez,they certanly add to the contents of your trousers when they flare up if you try to rush them when there cold.

[Bodge Deep]

I've had a few military ones. They're nearly always dated and marked with the crows foot /|\ Last one i had was a rather spiffing 1943 one before i decided they weren't nearly dangerous enough and transferred my preference to the infinately more volatile and unstable Colemans petrol lamps...Pah the Tilley is a mere toy!

Try the Colemans 'Sun in the Night' model guaranteed to raise the temperaure... and a mushroom cloud should the startup go to pot! Burning pressurised petrol... magic!

Or the Colemans 'Vehicular model' double burner stove (a flame thrower and demolition bomb combination) guaranteed to warm beans and flush out dug in enemy positions with equal vigour.

Banish the the cold and the dark.. oh and eyebrows and fingertips come to that!

 

Why are camping stoves and lamps so addictive... and such fun?

[N.O.S.]

A bit more exciting the man sez,they certanly add to the contents of your trousers when they flare up if you try to rush them when there cold.

You Tilley billy

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

You tilly billy.

You silly tilly billy

why arnt you at Beltring?

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

I've had a few military ones. They're nearly always dated and marked with the crows foot /|\ Last one i had was a rather spiffing 1943 one before i decided they weren't nearly dangerous enough and transferred my preference to the infinately more volatile and unstable Colemans petrol lamps...Pah the Tilley is a mere toy!

Try the Colemans 'Sun in the Night' model guaranteed to raise the temperaure... and a mushroom cloud should the startup go to pot! Burning pressurised petrol... magic!

Or the Colemans 'Vehicular model' double burner stove (a flame thrower and demolition bomb combination) guaranteed to warm beans and flush out dug in enemy positions with equal vigour.

Banish the the cold and the dark.. oh and eyebrows and fingertips come to that!

 

Why are camping stoves and lamps so addictive... and such fun?

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:Thanks mate needed that,crap day.

[Bodge Deep]

But they are addictive

My brothers back yard looks like the tilley spares department... he's got about 15 of them and bits, and boxes of bits, and bits of boxes! Can't get enough! I bought another colemans yesterday at an auto jumble... couldn't just leave it there... it had about £70 worth of petrol in it!!!

[Degsy]

You silly tilly billy

why arnt you at Beltring?

 

Somebody has to mind the shop CW, remains to be seen if Bodge can exert some of the control which has been absent lately:sleep::laugh:

[N.O.S.]

Only got a one day pass.

What's the difference between a Tilley lamp and a Hurricane lamp?

[Bodge Deep]

One blows your tent down the other blows it up!

 

Isn't hurricane lamp justa generic term for the tin storm lanterns?

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

Only got a one day pass.

What's the difference between a Tilley lamp and a Hurricane lamp?

Dont think its pressurised,just got a wick,dunno.what day?

[Tony B]

Hurricane lamps are for wimps, they are just parrafin candles. The wick dips in the fuel burns unprssurised. the Pressure lamp now, alchemy and arson all mixed up. First preheat burner tube with meths, then pressurise tank, result is parrafin vapourisise up the burner tube, gets to jet as a vapour and is burned contained within a mantle, that is chemically treated cotton when heated they flourese adding to the light output. Perfectly safe if handled properly, just like dynamite. :-D

[N.O.S.]

In other words, a Tilley is pressurised, a Huricane is wick type. I think you're right, thanks.

 

I ought to know, but I've got a lamp out somewhere up top.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

One blows your tent down the other blows it up!

:rofl::rofl::rofl:dunnit again.

[snowtracdave]

Having just had a quick Google..........I feel a lot better.

 

 

Oh - and it looks as if it could be like Hoover....... Tilley is a brand name being the well known manufacturer of hurricane lamps.

[Guest catweazle (Banned Member)]

. I've got a lamp out somewhere up top.

You need a new mantle mate.

[Tony B]

Yer, hurricane lamps just burn 'em down. Not half as much fun for spectators.