logo image US lantern manufacturers A - I


The Workhorse brand 500 cp lantern

is manufactured by the CJN Adams Corp. in Iowa,
using foreign and domestic parts.
Besides having a positive fuel shutoff (left image-knob to the left)

it has a different design for the air/fuel mixing tube (right image).

This lantern is in Brien Page's collection.

For safety only use kerosene fuel in this lantern.


Originally designed and built for the military by a consortium of 4 lantern manufacturers,

This lantern was later built by other companies

that successfully bid for the government contracts.

This lantern, in Roger Hill's collection, was built by Auto-Fab Manufacturing (AFM),

Mansfield, Ohio, in 1967


The Best Light Co, Canton, OH, made this Model 304 lantern.

The
spun steel fount had been painted by a previous owner;
the original finish was an
unknown plating.
The tip cleaner rod is worked from below the globe cage.

This one burner, torch-lighting lantern

is in Fil Graff's collection.


The Brite Lite Co., Albert Lea, Minnesota,

includes this No 69 400cp lantern in their Catalog No 5

which can be dated to around 1916, according to Neil McRae.

This 20" tall lantern, sans globe, is in Bob Hitchcock's collection.


The Brite Lite Co. also made this Model 99

lantern that appears in Catalog No. 5 as the above Model 69.

This single mantle, torch lighting, gasoline lantern

was also advertised as producing 400 cp.

The bail attachment to the central part of the ventilator

and the wire guard around the globe are unusual.


The Economy Lamp Co., Kansas City, Missouri, made this Model 408 lantern, after 1925

according to Neil McRae who has compared the burner to other burners made by this company.

Unfortunately the lantern was figured in the Coleman Collectors Guide 1903-1954

and mistakenly identified as Coleman Model NL 323.

Some of the NL 323's were converted to match lighting which makes the lantern resemble Model 408.

This lantern is in Yoshihiro Sugimoto's collection.


The Economy Lamp Co. made this earlier version of Model 408

between 1920 and 1924 according to Neil McRae.

The burner on this one is a much larger inverted "U" shape

and the generator has a wire spiral designed to speed the match lighting process.

The door in the mica globe slides up to light.

This lantern is in Tameo Gomi's collection.


This Handy Lite lantern was manufactured by Enterprise Tool &  Metal Works, Chicago.

This lantern, in Fil Graff's collection, has a reproduction mice globe

and is operating at only 45 cp in this image.

The lantern has a small fount but is similar to two others

that we know of by this manufacturer.

This lantern appeared in a 1922 advertisement by this company.


The burner with the characteristic horizontal air intake tubes

is similar to those made by Thomas Mfg. Co.,

but a 1916 advertisement for this lantern identifies it

as a product of the Foote Mfg. Co., another Dayton, Ohio, firm.

This model draws air in through the holes around the rim

and connects by inside ports to the air intake tubes (right image).

The ventilator bolt is from a Foote Mfg. Co. lamp.


The Gloria Light Co. of Chicago manufactured this Model 12 Oxo Gas lantern

which was probably made prior to 1915.

This 400cp model was designed to burn either kerosene or white gas (right image).

The bail on this lantern is a replacement wire for the original.


A second lantern model by the Gloria Light Co.,

this single burner has a push-pull tip cleaner.

Neil McRae, whose collection this is in, was able to get it running

even though the tip cleaner is broken.

The image on the left shows it running on gasoline

although it may be a kerosene model.


A third lantern model by the Gloria Light Co.,

this single burner lantern is 15" high

and the turban fount base is 7" in diameter!

This lantern was also sold as Knight Light Company's Model 311.

Larry Dunbar has restored this lantern

but it still needs a tip cleaner wire (right image) at the top of this torch lighting model.


Another Gloria Light Co. lantern,

this unknown model is a two mantle version of the above.

The tip cleaner lever is at the bottom of the generator,

rather than the top as on the preceding,

and is not engaged in the up position as seen here.

The mica globe was removed for this image.


Also made by the Gloria Light Company,

based on the burners this is Model "R"
in Neil McRae's system of designation of this company's prooducts.

This match lighting model also appears in a copper finish

and was badged and sold by the Knight Light Company

also of Chicago.

gloria lantern j
This Gloria double-mantled, unlabeled lantern

Neil McRae, the owner of the lantern,

has designated this one as Model "J"

as explained above.
A unique feature is the the pair of spring clips

that hold the ventilator to the top of the frame.


This is a prototype for the Model 500CK lantern model

that Levi Glick developed in the summer, 2001 for his

H.C. Lanterns company in Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.

He uses Coleman founts with his burner (right image)

in a kerosene version (left image) and a naptha (white gas) version.

The ventilator is his design; the lantern can be hung from a ceiling

with an optional lamp hanger rod.


The Herz Manufacturing Co., St Paul, Minnesota

made this 350 cp Marvel-Lite lantern.

It has a built-in pump; air enters the intake

via holes in the top of the base tube under the globe cage base

This lantern lacks the mica globe and one burner cap.

This torch lit lantern is in Bob Frank's collection.


The stenciling on the fount states: No 456,

Mfd. by Hydro Carbon Light Co., Seattle (Washington).

The lantern resembles other models

that were known to be marketed for lighting poultry houses.

This lantern, in Michael Merz's collection,

may have been made by another manufacturer.

 

Main updated Feb. 18, '12
Akron Lamp Co. lanterns updated Nov. 9, '11
Akron Lamp Co. lamps updated Oct. 13, '11
American Gas Machine lanterns - early models updated Dec. 17, '11
American Gas Machine lamps updated Jan. 22, '12
AGM lanterns - models beginning with the mid-1930's updated Mar. 15, '11
AGM, King Seeley, & Thermos stoves updated Feb. 18, '12
AGM, King Seeley, & Thermos lanterns - later models updated May 9, '11
Coleman Canada lamps updated Apr. 12, '11
Coleman Canada lanterns pre- 1945 updated Jan. 17, '12
Coleman US lamps before mid-1920's updated Sept. 24, '11
Coleman Canada lanterns 1946 - 1970 updated Feb. 14, '12
Coleman US lamps after mid 1920's updated Mar. 30, '11
Coleman Canada lanterns 1971 - 1993 updated Feb. 10, '12
Coleman hollow wire lighting updated Mar. 14, '11
Coleman US lanterns pre-1931 updated Feb. 10, '12
Coleman irons updated Mar. 26, '11
Coleman US lanterns 1931 - 1945 updated Feb. 8, '12
Coleman Canada stoves updated Nov. 29, '11
Coleman US lanterns 1946 - 1960 updated Apr. 2, '11
Coleman US stoves until early-1930's updated Nov. 9, '11
 Coleman US lanterns 1961 - 1980 updated Nov. 9, '11
Coleman US stoves mid-1930's - early-1950's updated Feb. 18, '12
 Coleman US lanterns 1981 - 2000 updated Aug. 8, '11
Coleman US stoves mid 1950's - present updated Nov. 29, '11
Coleman US lanterns 2001 - present updated Mar. 30, '11
Custom lamps, lights, heaters, and stoves updated Aug. 4, '11
Custom lanterns updated Dec. 14, '11
Heater etc. manufacturers A - K updated Feb. 10, '12
Ehrich & Graetz/AIDA & Petromax lanterns updated Apr. 25, '11
Heater etc. manufacturers L - Z updated Aug. 24, '10
Germany lantern manufacturers updated May 3, '11
Hollow wire lighting updated Jan 29, '12
International lantern manufacturers A - G updated Nov. 16, '11
International lamp manufacturers A - D updated Mar. 31, '11
 International lantern manufacturers H - P updated Feb. 15, '12
International lamp manufacturers E - O updated Jan. 27, '12
 International lantern manufacturers Q - S updated Dec. 15, '11
International lamp manufacturers P - Z updated Feb. 18, '12
 International lantern manufacturers T - Z updated Sept. 30, '11
Irons updated Sept. 23, '11
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers A - B updated Sept. 2, '10
Links updated Nov. 16, '11
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers C updated Feb. 16, '12
 Stove manufacturers A - H updated May 25, '11
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers D - M updated Sept. 2, '10
Stove manufacturers I - P updated Feb. 18, '12
Propane lantern, stove, & heater manufacturers N - Z updated Nov. 5, '11
Stove manufacturers Q - Z updated Feb. 6, '12
Pump manufacturers A - D updated Mar. 29, '11
Sweden lamp manufacturers updated Apr. 30, '11
Pump manufacturers E - Z updated Apr. 2, '11
Sweden stove manufacturers updated Feb. 2, '12
Sweden lantern manufacturers updated Nov. 9, '11
Tilley household lamps pre-1945 updated Nov. 13, '10
Tilley lanterns updated Jul. 14, '08
Tilley household lamps post-1945 updated June 6, '08
UK lantern manufacturers updated Jan 27, '12
Tilley industrial lamps & lanterns updated Apr. 12, '10
US lantern manufacturers A - I updated Apr. 2, '11
US lamp manufacturers A - F updated May 26, '11
US lantern manufacturers J - M updated Feb. 14, '12
US lamp manufacturers G - L updated Feb. 6, '12
US lantern manufacturers N - O updated Jan. 4, '12
US lamp manufacturers M - O updated Dec. 12, '11
US lantern manufacturers P - Z updated Dec. 1, '11
US lamp manufacturers P - Z updated Jan. 18, '12
Wrench & other lamp tool manufacturers A - F updated Aug. 8, '11
Wrench & other lamp tool manufacturers G - Z updated Feb. 2, '12

 

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