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Buflam pressure stove

Accession Number

869.2010.1

Object Name

Buflam pressure stove

Created

11/11/2010

Creator

Hermione Cooper

Accession Date

11/11/2010

Brief Description

Silver coloured 'Buflam' pressure stove.Base with three hinged feet(legs missing), pump and screwtop for refuelling and burner.

Dimensions

16(diameter) x 18(h) cms

Number Of Objects

1

Inscription Description

"CHARLES TWIGG &CO. LTD SOLE MAKERS OF GENUINE 'BUFLAM' PRODUCTS" written in 8 languages on sides. "BUFLAM PRESSURE STOVE MADE IN ENGLAND" on top.

Colour

silver

Maker

Charles Twigg & Co.

Object Production Place

England

Provenance

Charles Twigg & Co. Of Perry Bar, Birmingham were light engineering manufacturers during the 1940’s and 50’s. They produced only a small number of lamps and stoves under the Buflam and Petroflam label the one we have ‘appeared’ in a box of junk bought in an auction – his legs are missing but he’s quite a handsome fella!
Ironically, Charles Twigg & Co are best known for something that happened after the company was wound up in 1957. This was a landmark legal case concerning passage of property, Carlos Federspiel & Co. vs Charles Twigg & Co. Ltd., (1957). This case centred on how a company in Costa Rica bought from the English company 85 bicycles "Free On Board" British Port and paid the purchase price in advance. The bicycles were packed into cases which were marked with the buyers name and registered for shipment in a named ship that was to load them at Liverpool. The cases containing the bicycles had not yet been sent to the port when Twiggs ceased trading. A receiver and manager was appointed for the sellers, and he claimed that the bicycles were still the property of Twigg, even though they had been paid for and crated ready to send. In court it was held that the "property in the bicycles" had not yet passed to the buyer so in this case the receiver could get them. The buyer did not become the owner until the crates were placed on the ship, since he had purchased them F.O.B.
Any further information about Charles Twigg & Co would be very welcome.

Acquisition Method

Donated by Mick Tighe

Acquisition Date

11/11/2010

Condition Check Date

11/11/2010

Rules

Spectrum : UK Museum documentation standard, V.3.1 2007

Modified

11/11/2010

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