Stove
manufacturers P - Z

Poloron Products, Inc.,
New Rochelle, New York,
made this two burner stove,
Model GS-1.
This stove, in Steve Winikates's
collection,
came with the instruction
sheet that is dated Dec. 1961.
The windscreens latch through
a loop in the back right corners of the cooking grate.
Prentiss Wabers Products
Co. made this Auto KampKook Kit
when the town they were
located in was known as Grand Rapids, Wisconsin,
which dates the stove to
pre-1920.
The legs are removable
on this early model
but the fount remains outside
the box for packing.
Harold Porter has restored
this stove which is in his collection.
This Prentiss Wabers Auto
Kamp Kook Kit
is the one burner equivalent
of the two burner model above
and was made after 1920.
This stove, in Joe Pagan's
collection,
has a removable key to
control the burner.
The steel parts of the
burner make preheating difficult.
Prentiss Wabers Products
Co., Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin,
manufactured many stoves
in the first half of the 20th century.
This Model 8B two burner
stove was probably made in the late 1920's - early '30's.
The burner assembly stores
in the case by lifting it from the running position (upper image).
The stove is instant lighting;
it has a sliding bar with a hole
to allow the fuel air mix
to reach the left burner (lower image).
Preway Model 168 is a 3
burner floor stove
that probably dates to
pre-1934
based on the few catalogs
we have of this company.
Randall Adams restored
this stove
which included fabricating
the splash guard
and tailoring the design
of that part for their kitchen decor.
Prentiss Wabers Preway
brand stoves were often called Auto Cook Kits.
Model 418P, seen here running,
is in Brien Page's collection.
This model dates to the
mid 1930's.

Preway stove Models P4821
(left) and P4822 (right) may date to the 1950's,
according to Brien Page,
whose collection these are in.
Model P4821 has an unusual
wedge-shaped design;
the fount raises the front
of the stove and the steel plate in front levels the grate.
Both burners were running
when he took the image of the P4822.
These stoves have a rod
with a terminal loop to regulate the right burner.
This military pocket stove
was made for the military
by Prentiss-Wabers or Preway.
Stamped in this stove is
M-1942-MOD
and PW-1-45.
This stove is in Fred Kuntz's
collection.

Aktiebolaget Pyro, Stockholm,
Sweden, made this tripod stove around 1912-15.
It is unusual in that it
has a built-in pump (right) that removes for fuel filling
and the knob allows air
to be drawn from the top of the fount
to force the preheater
flame up to light the fuel.
Aktiebolaget Pyro started
production in 1900
but was not in business
for many years.
RM Manufacturing &
Engineering Co. Ltd., Birmingham, UK
made this kerosene fueled,
silent burner stove.
This stove and package
with prickers is in Jeff Johnson's collection.
The Model M-1950 stove
was built by a number of companies
under contract to the U.S.
Quartermaster Corps between 1951 and 1987.
It fits in the aluminum
case which doubles as a cook kit.
The roarer burner is rated
at 5500BTU/hr.
Spare parts are held inside
the
legs and the pump handle.
This stove was made by
Rogers Tool & Die Co., Inc., Akron, Ohio, in 1964.
This is an older, kerosene
burning tripod stove, Model 4,
made by Sievert of Sweden
under the SVEA brand.
The legs on this model
are solder to the fount and are not removable.
It has a silent burner
so it burns quietly
due to the tiers of fine
holes on the sides of the burner
where the flames are dispersed.
The grate is missing from
this brass stove.
Svea made this Komfur Model
60 stove
with a silent burner.
This stove has not been
used
and is in Bo Ryman's collection.
Max Sievert also marketed
stoves under the Campus brand.
This Model 3 Campus stove,
in Jorgen Svensson's collection,
is similar to the SVEA
123 Model.
This stove burns white
gas and probably dates to the 1930's.
This early Assurans tripod
stove was made by the Assuransköksbolaget, Stockholm, Sweden;
the stove was patented
in the late 1870's by the inventor Forsberg.
The stove, like the early
Nyberg
stove, lacks a pump and has a spherical fount.
What appears to be a pump
on this stove is the pressure release screw.
Note the preheater cup
swings away and the burner can be tipped back for cleaning.
This stove is in Magnus
Thilander's collection.
The Model CS 56 is possibly
the first
post-WWII stove made by
Tilley.
The fount is the same as
that on the X246 storm lantern
and sold a kit to convert
this lantern to a stove.
This camping stove is in
Neil McRae's collection.
Tilley made the P100 stove
through the 1970's into the 1990's.
In later price lists it
is listed as paraffin stove model X246.
This model seems to have
been supplied as a special order item.
It is further unusal in
having a Primus, rather than Tilley, burner.
This stove is in Neil McRae's
collection.
This British military specification
stove was manufactured
by several companies during
and after WWII.
The olive green paint has
been removed
from the sides of the fount
of this paraffin (kerosene) burning stove.
This stove, purchased in
Hitchin, England, with "all the bits,"
fits in the tin to the
left which doesn't function as a pot.
Turner Brass Works in Sycamore,
Illinois
manufactured this Model
1111 one burner stove.
In operation the tip of
the generator has a nut to attach it to the burner.
The fount stores in the
case as the burner can be slid forward in its mount.
This stove works and is
in Brien Page's collection.
This stove dates to the
1930's and appears in an ad in 1949.
An unknown model of tripod
stove with a lantern conversion
in the Dolphin brand by
Watcor Ltd.,
Cape Town, South Africa.
This stove and lantern
combination is is Neil McRae's collection.
More information on this
stove/lantern combination
can be found on Shinzo
Kono's website.
Model 42A Senior stove
was made by the Wehrle Co., Newark, Ohio.
Mike Bullis had to repair
the tank in a couple of places
before he was able to operate
it; the stove is now in Harold Porter's collection.
The controls for the right
(master) burner are on the fount.
The fount is pressurized
with a separate pump.
The stove frame is cast
iron.

Model 43A Senior stove
by the Wehrle Company
is a larger three-burner
model.
John Britt, whose collection
this is in,
cleaned and painted the
rusted sheet metal,
matching the original colors
as closely as possible.
The 7" diameter cast iron
burner grates are missing but the stove works.