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Subj: Petrol v Parafin - Gasoline v Kerosine, how dangerous?
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G0TEZ/TPK 1.83c Num 505 08-09-02T10:23:44 GMT: COLNE,Lancs:
I've mentioned the shopkeeper who told me that the difference between
Coleman and Tilley lamps was the fuel. Petrol v Paraffin.
A more recent bulletin brought back a long lost memory.
My mother had an iron, obviously intended to be portable. It was small,
heavily chromed and very attractive. It had a small round tank just behind
the handle and pumped up like a Primus stove, then, when lit, it could be
used for a quick bit of ironong and the heat was variable.
It ran on a small quantity of Petrol (Gasoline for the US),
The reason I mention it is that there were a number of appliances around in
the 1940s - 50s which ran on petrol yet seemed perfectly safe. The idea of
sitting in a tent cooking on a petrol powered primus, while getting light
from a petrol fuelled Coleman/Tilley lamp while the wife does a spot of
ironing using a petrol fuelled iron seems horrifying to me now but we
didn't seem to worry about it back then.
Perhaps were all wimps now:-)
Another good reason, certainly in the UK, for abandoning petrol is the
price. Petrol used to be cheap enough to use as a solvent and to wash car
engines in while repairing them. Nowadays people buy very small cars,
preferably diesel engined and buy fuel in very small amounts.
Perhaps petrol was a lot safer than we think it was but I wonder if we
could afford to use it in lamps now.
All the best. Ian.
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