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Old 25th Mar 2018, 1:49 pm   #1
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Default 1920's? Electric Fire.

I have just received an Electric Fire, COS-MOS make. Looks like one could make toast on the guard, or heat a pan in it ! I wonder if that flex was original ? Has any one any information on Cos Mos ? I wonder when they were first sold?


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It may be a stylised Cosmos, judging from the quotation marks. Not much clearer though!
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Old 25th Mar 2018, 2:33 pm   #3
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Is it a Metropolitan Vickers logo between the Cos & Mos in the photo? Cosmos was their name for domestic products.

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images...ick_1922TP.jpg

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Yes, a Metropolitan Vickers product. Here's half a page from Sunco's catalogue for 1929 showing, I think, the very model: and for good measure the side of a lightbulb box of the same period.

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Old 25th Mar 2018, 8:44 pm   #5
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Thank you for your replies Gents, It looks the same style as the 1922 picture but the 1929 fire has the same feet, I have a feeling it may have been offered for sale a year or two earlier. The two core cable is like cotton covered bell wire, I know its only one kW but I can imagine it would get warm at the very least.


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There's meant to be a wooden knob to tilt the guard, in order to turn over the toast.
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