• Publication date for the next issue will be a week later than originally announced: 11th October.

    This delay will allow those who take out a subscription at Hidden Earth to be included in our mailing list.

    If you are not currently a subscriber, sign up on our website by 29 September – or come by our stand at Hidden Earth; we would love to say hi!

    Click here for details of this edition

Premier Acetylene Lamp Co

LarryFatcat

LarryFatcat

Active member
Does anyone remember this company?
I got a missed call from Buxton and put the number into Google. It came up as the "Premier Acetylene Lamp Co" but the address gave it away as Caving Supplies.
 
LarryFatcat said:
Does anyone remember this company?
I got a missed call from Buxton and put the number into Google. It came up as the "Premier Acetylene Lamp Co" but the address gave it away as Caving Supplies.
Click to expand...
Caving Supplies bought out the trade name and tooling etc. from Premier, many years ago.
 
Here is a selection of what they used to make.

album-72157679947221496
 

Attachments

  • Caswellslist2.jpg
    Caswellslist2.jpg
    161.6 KB · Views: 275
Casswells were an excellent company.
In the good old days you could go into their shop in Midsomer Norton and purchase bang over the counter. :o

 
Aubrey said:
Casswells were an excellent company.
In the good old days you could go into their shop in Midsomer Norton and purchase bang over the counter. :o
Click to expand...

Polar Ammon I suppose. It seemed to be everywhere. I once spent a night in a bed with a discarded brown paper bag under it. On inspection in the morning the bag was found to contain six sticks of Polar Ammon.

.
 
Graigwen said:
Aubrey said:
Casswells were an excellent company.
In the good old days you could go into their shop in Midsomer Norton and purchase bang over the counter. :o
Click to expand...

Polar Ammon I suppose. It seemed to be everywhere. I once spent a night in a bed with a discarded brown paper bag under it. On inspection in the morning the bag was found to contain six sticks of Polar Ammon.

.
Click to expand...

Did the earth move ;D  ;D
 
I remember buying our first lot of bang from Casswells. Told to go round the back (this was the Wells branch, IIRC) and a bloke came out with a plastic bag, which he dumped unceremoniously in the back of our van. I don't suppose you can buy the stuff in quite the same way nowadays...
 
cavemanmike said:
Graigwen said:
Aubrey said:
Casswells were an excellent company.
In the good old days you could go into their shop in Midsomer Norton and purchase bang over the counter. :o
Click to expand...

Polar Ammon I suppose. It seemed to be everywhere. I once spent a night in a bed with a discarded brown paper bag under it. On inspection in the morning the bag was found to contain six sticks of Polar Ammon.

.
Click to expand...

Did the earth move ;D  ;D
Click to expand...

That happened earlier. When the student nurse who occupied the flat found the sticks of geli she put them in her handbag, walked down to the prom and threw them into the sea. Then she realised she had done so right in front of the Police Station. Nothing else happened.

.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top