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Thread ID: 146292 2018-06-21 19:54:00 Do you have one of these? kenj (9738) PC World Chat
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1450810 2018-06-21 23:24:00 Thats interesting, the middle part is a tapered chimney . Science . :-)

Still being made in NZ . Thats something you now cant say often.
wilsonandco.co.nz
1101 (13337)
1450811 2018-06-22 03:56:00 Our family had one in the 50s. We went for a trip from Wellington up to Cape Reinga and back in the 50s (a long trip in those days) and we used it a few times each day. It was very easy to find fuel as it boiled well on just a handful of twigs. Roscoe (6288)
1450812 2018-06-22 04:26:00 The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare....

LL

Sorry LL, I beat you to it (Post #6 above) ... go to the back of the queue, do not pass go, do not collect $200 :)
WalOne (4202)
1450813 2018-06-22 11:04:00 Still have ours, many a good hot cuppa still to come I hope. KarameaDave (15222)
1450814 2018-06-23 02:11:00 Sorry LL, I beat you to it (Post #6 above) ... go to the back of the queue, do not pass go, do not collect $200 :)

Indeed. It was Portia. Well done both of you.
John H (8)
1450815 2018-06-23 07:00:00 When doing my apprenticeship at Railways, we used to make them for the rail repair crews-- hundreds of them in Tinned Copper :waughh: wainuitech (129)
1450816 2018-06-23 08:29:00 Probably where my father in law got his. He was a steam engine driver for NZR on the Wellington to Gisborne line.

Ken :)
kenj (9738)
1450817 2018-06-23 09:52:00 In the 1950s we had a thermette which I remember being used at picnics usually beside a river. Today I was in E Hayes which is a hardware store in Invercargill. They sell a thermette that you can put an attachment on the top to allow a frying pan or pot to be placed so that it can be used for cooking as well as for boiling water.

This is a Tin Thermette costing NZ$187.00, prices since the 1950s have gone up.

It brings back a lot of memories.
Bobh (5192)
1450818 2018-06-23 10:26:00 Apparantly a NZ invention and was used a lot in the desert during the Second World War, if I remember correctly. Bryan (147)
1450819 2018-06-23 10:32:00 Apparantly a NZ invention and was used a lot in the desert during the Second World War, if I remember correctly.

I wonder what sort of fuel they got in the desert? :(
Zippity (58)
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