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7th Dec 2017, 7:34 pm | #1 |
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Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Neat little mid fifties hammerite finish fan heater which I can't find any reference to...got it at a car-boot 25+ years ago
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7th Dec 2017, 9:06 pm | #2 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
its a sweet little thing, never seen anything quite like it. Any plans to overhaul it?
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7th Dec 2017, 9:11 pm | #3 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Wow!! I haven't seen one of those for years. I used to have the exact same one as my bedroom heater when I was a kid- I suspect it came from my Grandad who had an electrical shop and kept us supplied with fan heaters.
In fact, I'm sitting in front of a 'Magicook (MAL) type 134 fan heater which dates from the '60s and was his greenhouse fan heater. I painted my Win - o - Sum with brown aerosol for some reason!! I do love vintage fan heaters: they are so much better than modern ones. Thanks for posting that, All the best Nick |
7th Dec 2017, 9:49 pm | #4 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Love it! Looks well made - far better than all these plastic moderns.
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7th Dec 2017, 11:08 pm | #5 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
I had one in the mid to late 60s in my shack which was a 4 berth caravan. My dad worked in refrigeration and it was retrieved from a pub beer cellar. Mine was a bronze hammer finish.
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8th Dec 2017, 12:41 am | #6 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Looks like it was made from a surplus headlamp shell of 1930s design!
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8th Dec 2017, 3:09 am | #7 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Exactly my thoughts about the acorn shaped pressings
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8th Dec 2017, 2:47 pm | #8 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Very interesting observation.
I have seen radios fitted into surplus clock cases but that's a new one for me. N. |
8th Dec 2017, 4:10 pm | #9 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Or saucepans!
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9th Dec 2017, 9:52 am | #10 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Well the Win-O-Sum is having to go in the current 'Third Great Purge'...the First was around the year 2000 when the radios went (didn't even photograph some of them ! :-( )
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9th Dec 2017, 1:10 pm | #11 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
If you want to get rid of it, please offer it on the forum. Whatever you do, don't take it to the tip!!
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9th Dec 2017, 7:11 pm | #12 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
It's always possible they bought the press tooling from the previous manufacturer.
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10th Dec 2017, 1:04 am | #13 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
It reminds me of a motorbike headlamp of around that time. I wonder if they bought up a load of unused stock from a manufacturer?
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10th Dec 2017, 1:34 am | #14 |
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Don't worry , it won't be skipped. I tried searching for Win-O-Sum in the British Newspaper Archive (free in our public library) which sometimes turns up ancient adverts with graphics or newspaper references to products but nothing showed up
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Re: Win-O-Sum Fan Heater (made in Cirencester)
Quote:
http://www.theatrecrafts.com/pages/h...etail/?id=1123
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10th Dec 2017, 3:38 pm | #16 |
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