Tony B Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 snowtracdave Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 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 . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tony B Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 Thanks Dave, I'm getting rather a collection of Tilleys and Optimus stoves. Great light and will heat a tent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Dougiebarder Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tony B Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tony B Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bodge Deep Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 N.O.S. Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 You tilly billy. You silly tilly billy why arnt you at Beltring? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bodge Deep Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Degsy Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 You silly tilly billywhy 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: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 N.O.S. Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 Only got a one day pass. What's the difference between a Tilley lamp and a Hurricane lamp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Bodge Deep Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 One blows your tent down the other blows it up! Isn't hurricane lamp justa generic term for the tin storm lanterns? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tony B Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 N.O.S. Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 One blows your tent down the other blows it up! :rofl::rofl::rofl:dunnit again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 snowtracdave Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Guest catweazle (Banned Member) Posted July 14, 2008 Share Posted July 14, 2008 . I've got a lamp out somewhere up top. You need a new mantle mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Tony B Posted July 14, 2008 Author Share Posted July 14, 2008 Yer, hurricane lamps just burn 'em down. Not half as much fun for spectators. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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