Here is a clever flyer for Timkin Silent Automatic Wall-Flame Oil Burners. Thank you to our friend John Mills for sharing this with us!
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Standards of the National Board of Fire Underwriters for the Installation of Oil Burning Equipments as Recommended by the National Fire Protection Association, 1941. Than...
Thanks to Alan Mercurio for sharing this nice 1956 brochure from Kohler. Note how they use the children in their marketing.
This is a brochure for the Mohawk Oil Burner that includes a detailed cutaway drawing.
Here is an interesting presentation of extended heating surface in a boiler, featuring National Radiator Company's No. 2 Oil-Fired Boiler. Size matters. This is from 1941...
Here are some 1945 predictions from the Oil Heat Institute of America.
People were disgusted with coal heat after a prolonged strike in 1923 and quickly switched to oil. This is from The New York Times.
Here is an informational brochure about the Stewart-Warner Oil-Fired Reverse Flow Boiler.
This is an address by Wallace E. Pratt, Vice President and Director or Standard Oil of New Jersey to the Oil Heat Institute of America on March 13, 1944. Read across the ...
Thanks to John Mills for sharing this Timkin flyer from 1948. He points out how it's interesting that they called their furnaces "air conditioning" back then.