The Albert Lea Gas Light Co. was in business

for several years in Albert Lea, Minnesota,

until the assets were bought by the Brite Lite Co. of that city in 1914.

This hollow wire tank, in Steve Cullins's collection,

is also marked with the Albert Lea Gas Light Co's Brite Lite brand name.

American Gas Machine made this Salesman's Kit
to demonstrate their hollow wire lighting system.
The gas tank is approximately one gallon capacity.
The light is mounted on an extendable post.
This kit is in Dan Gommel Jr's collection.
AGM advertised these in their catalogues in 1912 and 1917.

This unmarked hollow wire light was manufactured
by the Daniels Gasoline Lighting Co, Paris, Illinois,
based on similarities of the burner to a patent awarded to C.M. Daniels
and the T-shaped valve on the hollow wire tank below.

This Daniels 2 gallon hollow wire tank
The "T-shaped" valves on this tank are the same
as on the hollow wire lamp above.
Gary Daniels, grandson of Charles Daniels, is the owner of this tank.

This is a Supreme Lighting Systems hollow wire lamp, sans shade,
manufactured by the Doud Lighting Co. of Chicago, IL.
This lamp includes a rolled portion of  the hollow copper wire
used to deliver the gas to the lamp.
Hollow wire is flexible copper tubing, 1/8" in outside diameter.
This lamp is in Fil Graff's collection.

This hollow wire lamp was made by
the Gloria Light Co., Chicago, Illinois.
It is complete and was restored
by Craig Seabrook, whose collection it is in.

The Gloria Light Co. made several sizes of hollow wire tanks
for their lighting systems.
This tank held several gallons of fuel.
The brass barrel on the foot pump is
19 5/8" long x 1 1/2" in diameter.
This tank and pump is in Loren Abernathy's collection.

This Gloria hollow wire chandelier
was found in Australia by Albert White and restored by him.
The Gloria Light Co. of Australasia outlasted the Gloria Light Co. of Chicago, Illinois, USA,
according to Neil McRae.
This Model 40 was rated at 1000cp and was a combination of two Model 20 lights.

Ronnie Hardison was able to run his No. 42 Knight Light chandelier
using a Coleman CQ fount with a pressure gauge (right) as a fuel source.
We believe that Knight Light products were manufactured by the Gloria Light Co.,
another Chicago company.
A patent date stamped on the cowls is March 15th, 1912.

Another Knight Light hollow wire light sans shade.
This light is in Jerry Engbring's collection.

This hollow wire tank was made by or badged for
the Knight Light Co., Chicago, Illinois.
The capacity of this tank, in the collection of Fil Graff,
is approximately 5 gallons.

The Little Wonder Light Co., Terre Haute, Indiana,
listed this No. 20 light in Catalog Number 24 which dates to c1924.
It was advertised as "the most popular light for business places,
schools, churches, shops and halls."
and took a 15" shade and listed for $10.00,
or as No. 20-F had a 14" art shade which listed for $15.00.

Aktiebolaget Lux, Stockholm, Sweden, made this Lux DHF hollow wire light,
at least as early as 1908 based on catalogs in Christer Carlsson's collection, who also owns this light.
The hollow wire connected to the light at the angular fitting above left of the smoke bell.
Fuel rose up the large tube to the ball on the burner (right)
before returning to the base of the burner in the small tube as an air-fuel vapor.
The light lacks the flame spreader and mantle that were held in place by the wing bolt to the right.

The Nagel Chase Manufacturing Co. of Chicago
made this Model 130 lamp around 1912-1920.
It is a dual mantle 400 cp model.
This lamp is in Bob Frank's collection;
he wants to get this lamp running again.

This Wizard Lighting System hollow wire tank,
made by the Nagel Chase Mfg. Co.,
is in Bruce Strauss's collection.
The cylinder is 24 1/2" tall x 10" in diameter
making it an 8 gallon tank.

Nagel Chase also made kerosene fueled lights,
Model 145 (left) and Model 147 (right),
which appeared in 1913-1919 catalogs
and were rated as 500cp then 300cp in later catalogs.
The globes are Nagel Chase also.
These lights are in Albert White's collection and were found in Australia;
they may have been partially constructed using parts by the Wizard Lighting Co., Sydney (see below).

This Model 175 Nagel Chase hollow wire light (left) sans shade
is in Neil McRae's collection.
Neil dates this from 1912 to the mid '20's
and notes that the same burner (right) was used for gasoline or kerosene
but with the latter requiring a supplementary generator heater tube
as seen here that curves around the air intake.

The Nagel Chase hollow wire tank on the left
could have been stored in a box,
such as the one for a Gloria hollow wire tank on the right.
These Australian items are in Albert White's collection.

Another hollow wire lamp in Fil Graff's collection,
this one was manufactured by National Stamping & Electric Co., Chicago.
This lamp is also missing the shade.

Standard-Gillett Light Co., a Chicago company that sold hollow wire lighting

also sold tanks with a very similar design and the Standard name.

Standard-Gillett was purchased by Nat'l Stamping circa 1912,

so we believe this National Stamping & Elec. Works tank

dates to after that purchase.

This 3 gallon tank is in Glenn Knapke's collection.

This Peerless tank held approximately 2.5 gallons of gasoline, half of the tank's volume.
This tank held enough gasoline to fuel a lighting system in a large home or small business for several days.
The foot pump forced air into the tank and pressurized the gasoline
which flowed out through the hollow wire to the ceiling lights.
This part of the system was often kept in the basement or a utility area.
The hollow wire would have been hooked up to the valve on the left.

A Reliable Lighting System arc light
manufactured by the Rice Knight Manufacturing Co. Ltd.,
Toronto, Canada.
This hollow wire light is missing the shade and heat deflector.

The Rice-Knight company made this No 2 hollow wire tank with a 3 gallon capacity,

Larry Healey, whose collection this in in, has researched the company's history

and learned that the company was relatively short-lived, from 1909 to 1914,

after which the principals, Harold A. Rice and Harry W. Knight,

moved on to other manufacturing interests.

So far as we know they only manufactured or sold hollow wire lighting systems.

Eugen Schatz, Zug, Switzerland,

made this Hasag Polar No 5 hollow wire light.

The equivalent donut lamp produced 800-1000 cp.

And probably could be fueled by either gasoline or kerosene.

This light is in Ruedi Fischer's collection.

Eugen Schatz also made this Standard brand light,

that was run on gasoline.

This lamp, in Ruedi Fischer's collection,

has brackets on the metal column

so that it could also have been made into a donut lamp model.

The Standard Gillett Light Co. existed
 in Chicago, Illinois, from 1906 to 1911.
The address on this hollow wire tank, 930 N. Halsted,
tells us that this tank was manufactured between 1906 and 1908.
This 5 gallon capacity tank (1/2 gasoline & 1/2 pressurized air)
is in Jon Schedler's collection.

This hollow wire light is identified as Wizard Lighting Co., Sydney, Australia.
This Australian light has an aluminum ventilator
and may have been capable of producing 400 cp.
It was made before 1923 and was available as a ceiling light, #57; wall light, #58;
and as a hurricane lantern, #59.
This light is in Albert White's collection.

This hollow wire light is stamped

Wizard Lighting Systems, Patented, Registered.

The 7 gallon tank is stenciled on the side Wizard Lighting Systems,

Bennett's Building, Gilbert Pl. Adelaide,

and embossed on the top Made In Australia,

Wizard Lighting Systems, Sydney.

These are in John Mannion's collection.