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Hailwood & Ackroyd coloured-glass lamps

20 January 2022by Bosuns MateFlame Safety Lamps

The featured image shows four Hailwood and Ackroyd lamps, or, pre-1926, Ackroyd and Best lamps. The company apparently hired out hundreds, if not thousands, of workmen’s lamps, prior to 1936. This was…

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Gazza’s collection: the first three months

31 December 2021by Gazza SteynFlame Safety Lamps

I only started collecting lamps in October this year (2021). The first lamp I purchased, on 11 October 2021, was a Wolf flame safety lamp 7RMBS from the UK. The 7RMBS was…

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