Posted by Jock on March 01, 2012 at 08:08:33 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Beckfoot Lighting posted by Owen Roberts on March 01, 2012 at 07:26:08:
They, or rather their Thorium coated mantels, were also more delicate.
I took a couple of modern pressed-steel Tilley lamps with me to augment the installed gimballed oil lamp on several Norfolk Broads sailing holidays in the 1990s. On the whole they were not a success, one leaked air and needed frequent pumping, the other leaked paraffin and was a fire hazard.
Not so a magnificent brass Tilley Lamp employed in his hut by the Lock Keeper on Lock 99 on the Grand Union Canal in the 1960s. This was a magnificent beast and, from what I can remember, 100% reliable.